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STAB
Definition of STAB
noun
An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object to hurt or kill someone.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe. Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STAB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
STAB starts with S and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read ABST - 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 STAB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found STAB?
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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