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ABOVE

5 letters

About ABOVE

ABOVE is a valid 5-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.

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ABOVE in OUTLIER

It has fitted 20 boards so far.

Day 1Day 97
Its 20 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards it fitted
66
First board
96
Latest board
4
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 46, 5 July 2026.

Built from these letters

ABOVE
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ABOVE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start ABOVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ABOVE?

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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.

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