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AGOUTIS

7 letters

Definition of AGOUTIS

noun

plural of agouti

AGOUTI

noun

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs, mainly native to Central and South America.

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Another sense

AGOUTIS carries a second meaning.

  1. noun

    Plural form of agouti.

Word DNA

AGOUTIS inherits its ancestry from its root, AGOUTI.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,135)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, AGOUTI · 7 relatives in the game

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AGOUTIS in a sentence

“There is a bunch of wildlife, very large marmot-like rodents called agoutis that you don't get to see anywhere else.”

NYT > Home Page, 2011

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

AGOUTIS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 44 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
44
Boards found on
31
First board
157
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

rainy

on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AGOUTIS
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start AGOUTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AGOUTIS?

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