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ULTRABASICS
About ULTRABASICS
ULTRABASICS is a valid 11-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
ULTRABASICS inherits its ancestry from its root, ULTRABASIC.
How it is built
Same root, ULTRABASIC · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ULTRABASICS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 138 days.
Built from these letters
ULTRABASICS starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABCILRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and S appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found ULTRABASICS?
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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