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SCREWTOP
Definition of SCREWTOP
adjective
Of a container: having a threaded lid (rather than a cork or push-on top).
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Where it comes from
From screw + top.
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.
SCREWTOP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCREWTOP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read CEOPRSTW - 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 SCREWT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found SCREWTOP?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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