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SCROFULOUS
Definition of SCROFULOUS
adjective
Of, related to, or suffering from scrofula (form of tuberculosis tending to cause enlarged lymph nodes and skin inflammation).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from New Latin scrōfulōsus. By surface analysis, scrofula + -ous.
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.
SCROFULOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCROFULOUS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CFLOORSSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S, O and U appear more than once.
Could you have found SCROFULOUS?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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