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SUBOPTIMIZE
Definition of SUBOPTIMIZE
verb
To perform suboptimization upon.
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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.
SUBOPTIMIZE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 165, 1 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SUBOPTIMIZE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEIIMOPSTUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SUBOPTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SUBOPTIMIZE?
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 165 - and most players walked straight past it.
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