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TIMEWORKS
Definition of TIMEWORKS
Wiktionary has no entry for TIMEWORKS itself. This is its base word, TIMEWORK.
noun
Work for which a certain rate is paid per unit of time.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for TIMEWORK.
From time + work.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TIMEWORKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TIMEWORKS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIKMORSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TIMEWO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TIMEWORKS?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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