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OUTBACK
Definition of OUTBACK
noun
The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From out + back.
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.
OUTBACK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
OUTBACK starts with O and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ABCKOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start OUTBAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found OUTBACK?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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