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ZINCOGRAPHY
Definition of ZINCOGRAPHY
noun
A lithographic method of producing engravings using zinc plates
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From zinco- + -graphy.
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.
ZINCOGRAPHY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZINCOGRAPHY starts with Z and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACGHINOPRYZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ZINCOGR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ZINCOGRAPHY?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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