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OPTICIAN
Definition of OPTICIAN
noun
A person who makes, dispenses or sells lenses, spectacles.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French opticien.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OPTICIAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
OPTICIAN starts with O and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACIINOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start OPTICI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found OPTICIAN?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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