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SKYSCRAPER
Definition of SKYSCRAPER
noun
A very tall building with a large number of floors.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compound of sky + scraper, first applied to tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York City and Chicago in the 1880s.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SKYSCRAPER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SKYSCRAPER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEKPRRSSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and R appear more than once.
Words that start SKYSCR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SKYSCRAPER?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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