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PHOTOSTAT
Definition of PHOTOSTAT
noun
A (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; any photocopy, even a xerographic one.
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Where it comes from
A genericization from the trade name of one of the earliest commercially successful types of photocopier, a pre-xerography type. Xerography displaced it in the 1960s and 1970s; since then the relics of it are historical curiosities. More in Wikipedia at Photostat machine.
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.
PHOTOSTAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHOTOSTAT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AHOOPSTTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and T appear more than once.
Words that start PHOTOS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHOTOSTAT?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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