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SYMBOL
Definition of SYMBOL
noun
A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “to throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, put”).
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.
SYMBOL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SYMBOL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read BLMOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SYMBOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found SYMBOL?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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