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SCRUTINIZE
Definition of SCRUTINIZE
verb
To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.
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Where it comes from
From scrutiny + -ize.
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.
SCRUTINIZE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 34 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCRUTINIZE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIINRSTUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SCRUTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCRUTINIZE?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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