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RETINOSCOPY
Definition of RETINOSCOPY
noun
Analysis of the refractive properties of the eye using a retinoscope; skiascopy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From retino- + -scopy.
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.
RETINOSCOPY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 62, 21 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETINOSCOPY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEINOOPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start RETINOS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RETINOSCOPY?
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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.
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