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SCRUTINY
Definition of SCRUTINY
noun
Intense study of someone or something.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English scrutiny, from Medieval Latin scrūtinium (“a search, an inquiry”), from Vulgar Latin scrūtor (“to search or examine thoroughly”), from Late Latin scrūta (“rubbish, broken trash”), from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
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.
SCRUTINY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCRUTINY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CINRSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCRUTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found SCRUTINY?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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