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SCORE
Definition of SCORE
noun
The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear. For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.
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.
SCORE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCORE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SCORE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found SCORE?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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