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STENOGRAPH
Definition of STENOGRAPH
noun
A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
STENOGRAPH carries 4 further meanings.
To write or represent by stenography.
noun
A character used in stenography; a writing, especially any note or memorandum, in shorthand.
noun
A stenographic machine; a form of typewriter in which signs and marks of various kinds—dots, dashes, etc.—are used in place of ordinary letters.
transitive verb
To write or report in stenographic characters.
Where it comes from
From steno- + -graph.
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.
STENOGRAPH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 119 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STENOGRAPH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AEGHNOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start STENOG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found STENOGRAPH?
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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