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SCOTOMA
Definition of SCOTOMA
noun
An area of impaired or lost vision within a visual field otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Late Latin scotoma, from Ancient Greek σκότωμα (skótōma), from σκότος (skótos, “darkness”). By surface analysis, scot- + -oma. The figurative sense is an extension from the literal sense, as if the mind, like an eye, cannot "see" certain things.
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.
SCOTOMA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCOTOMA starts with S and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACMOOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start SCOTOM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCOTOMA?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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