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SCARIFY
Definition of SCARIFY
verb
To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French scarifier, from Late Latin scarificāre, from Latin scarifāre (“to scarify”), from Ancient Greek σκαριφᾶσθαι (skariphâsthai, “scratch”), from σκάριφος (skáriphos, “writing, drawing, sketching”). Unrelated to scar.
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.
SCARIFY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 91 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCARIFY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACFIRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SCARIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found SCARIFY?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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