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STURT

/stɜː(ɹ)t/5 letters

Definition of STURT

noun

In an embryo, an angle equal to two gons. If a mosaic forms in the embryo, the line passes between two organs with a probability, in percent, equal to the number of sturts between them.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From the name of Alfred Henry Sturtevant.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

STURT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
118
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

chizzychivyanz

on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

STURT
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

STURT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read RSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

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 STURT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

STURTSSTURTEDSTURTING

Could you have found STURT?

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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.

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