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WEBCAM
Definition of WEBCAM
noun
A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a computer network, originally the World Wide Web.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Web + cam, shortened from camera.
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.
WEBCAM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 79 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WEBCAM starts with W and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ABCEMW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WEBCAM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found WEBCAM?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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