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WINCE
Definition of WINCE
noun
A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wyncen, from Anglo-Norman winchir (compare Old French guenchir), from Frankish *wankjan, related to *winkijan (“to flex, bend”). See also German winken.
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.
WINCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WINCE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEINW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WINCE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found WINCE?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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