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SYNTAX
Definition of SYNTAX
noun
A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Partly from Late Latin syntaxis and partly from its etymon, Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to arrange”). Doublet of syntaxis.
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.
SYNTAX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 109 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SYNTAX starts with S and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read ANSTXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SYNTAX
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found SYNTAX?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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