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QUIXOTE
About QUIXOTE
QUIXOTE is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
Same root, QUIXOTE · 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.
QUIXOTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 164, 31 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUIXOTE starts with Q and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIOQTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q and X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUIXOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found QUIXOTE?
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 164 - and most players walked straight past it.
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