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AFTERGUARDS
Definition of AFTERGUARDS
noun
plural of afterguard
AFTERGUARD
noun
The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of a ship, to attend the after-sails.
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Word DNA
AFTERGUARDS inherits its ancestry from its root, AFTERGUARD.
How it is built
Same root, AFTERGUARD · 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.
AFTERGUARDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 141, 8 October 2026.
Built from these letters
AFTERGUARDS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADEFGRRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once.
Words that start AFTERGU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AFTERGUARDS?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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