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STILETTO

/stɪˈlɛtoʊ/8 letters

Definition of STILETTO

noun

A small, slender knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian stiletto. By surface analysis, Latin stilus + Italian -etto. Doublet of stylet.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

STILETTO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its one board, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
106
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

mockingwird

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

STILETTO
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

STILETTO starts with S and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read EILOSTTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start STILET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

STILETSTILETSSTILETTOSSTILETTOEDSTILETTOESSTILETTOING

Could you have found STILETTO?

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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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