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AFTERS
Definition of AFTERS
noun
Dessert.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From after + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, AFTER · 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.
AFTERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AFTERS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEFRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start AFTERS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AFTERS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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