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OVERTAKINGS
Definition of OVERTAKINGS
noun
plural of overtaking
OVERTAKE · via overtaking
verb
To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OVERTAKINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 135, 2 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 135, 2 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OVERTAKINGS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGIKNORSTV - 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 OVERTAK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OVERTAKINGS?
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 135 - and most players walked straight past it.
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