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SLOT
Definition of SLOT
noun
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.
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.
SLOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 55, 14 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SLOT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read LOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SLOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found SLOT?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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