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UTIL
About UTIL
UTIL is a valid 4-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
Same root, UTIL · 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.
UTIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 59, 18 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 83 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
UTIL starts with U and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ILTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start UTIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found UTIL?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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