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THROAT
Definition of THROAT
noun
The front part of the neck.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
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.
THROAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 119 days.
First found by a player on Day 1, 22 May 2026.
Built from these letters
THROAT starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AHORTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start THROAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found THROAT?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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