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TEXAS
Definition of TEXAS
noun
The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.
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.
TEXAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TEXAS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AESTX - 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.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TEXAS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found TEXAS?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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