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SHORTEN
About SHORTEN
SHORTEN is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHORTEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHORTEN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EHNORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHORTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found SHORTEN?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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