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SURGEON
Definition of SURGEON
noun
One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgeon.
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.
SURGEON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SURGEON starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EGNORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SURGEO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found SURGEON?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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