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SCATTER
Definition of SCATTER
verb
To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English scateren, skateren, also schateren, Compare Middle Dutch scheteren (“to scatter”), Low German schateren, Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”); and is apparently remotely akin to Ancient Greek σκεδάννυμι (skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). and Tocharian B kät- (“to scatter, sow seeds”). Doublet of shatter.
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.
SCATTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCATTER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACERSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SCATTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCATTER?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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