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SKINT
Definition of SKINT
adjective
Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The "penniless" sense is attested since 1925 and is derived from a variant of skinned. Note also the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SKINT · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SKINT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 66 boards so far. 405 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SKINT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read IKNST - 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 SKINT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found SKINT?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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