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TELETYPE
Definition of TELETYPE
noun
A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + type (“text, typewriter”), q.v. In the United States, chiefly understood as a genericization of the Morkrum or Teletype Corporation's branded teletype machines. Doublet of telotype.
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.
TELETYPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TELETYPE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEELPTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once.
Words that start TELETY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TELETYPE?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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