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SAFELIGHT
Definition of SAFELIGHT
noun
The lamp in a photographic darkroom, providing illumination only from parts of the visible spectrum to which the photographic material in use is nearly or completely insensitive.
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Where it comes from
From safe + light.
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.
SAFELIGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 102, 30 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAFELIGHT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEFGHILST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SAFELI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SAFELIGHT?
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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.
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