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OVERFIT
Definition of OVERFIT
verb
To use a statistical model that has too many parameters relative to the size of the sample, leading to a good fit with the sample data but a poor fit with new data.
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Where it comes from
From over- + fit.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, OVERFIT · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OVERFIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 86, 14 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 86, 14 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OVERFIT starts with O and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EFIORTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start OVERFI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OVERFIT?
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 86 - and most players walked straight past it.
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