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SEXTON
Definition of SEXTON
noun
A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”). Doublet of sacristan.
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.
SEXTON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 76 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SEXTON starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ENOSTX - 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 SEXTON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found SEXTON?
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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