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PROXY
Definition of PROXY
adjective
Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English procucie, contraction of procuracie, from Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin prōcūrātiō, from Latin prōcūrō (“to manage, administer”) (English procure). Compare proctor.
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.
PROXY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROXY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read OPRXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found PROXY?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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