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SIXTH
Definition of SIXTH
adjective
The ordinal form of the number six.
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Where it comes from
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
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.
SIXTH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 105, 2 September 2026.
Built from these letters
SIXTH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read HISTX - 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.
Could you have found SIXTH?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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