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STYMIE
Definition of STYMIE
noun
A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
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Where it comes from
From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime.
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.
STYMIE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 65 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
STYMIE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIMSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start STYMIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found STYMIE?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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