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SCUTE
Definition of SCUTE
noun
A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin scutum (“shield”). Compare scutum, escudo, scudo, and écu.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCUTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 66 boards so far. 158 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCUTE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CESTU - 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 SCUTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found SCUTE?
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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