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SCOTOMY
Definition of SCOTOMY
noun
dizziness with dimness of sight
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek σκοτωμία (skotōmía, “dizziness”). By surface analysis, scot- + -omy.
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.
SCOTOMY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 116, 13 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCOTOMY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CMOOSTY - 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 SCOTOMY?
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 116 - and most players walked straight past it.
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