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SUPERNOVA
Definition of SUPERNOVA
noun
A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From super- + nova.
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.
SUPERNOVA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 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
SUPERNOVA starts with S and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AENOPRSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SUPERN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SUPERNOVA?
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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