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SEXT
Definition of SEXT
noun
Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.
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.
SEXT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SEXT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ESTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SEXT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found SEXT?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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