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ALONGSHORE

/əˈlɒŋʃɔː/10 letters

Definition of ALONGSHORE

adverb

At or along a shore or coast.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From along + shore.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adverb3 syllablescompound

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

ALONGSHORE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its 6 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
72
First board
133
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.

First ever to find it

poetandscribe

on Day 119, 16 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ALONGSHORE
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ALONGSHORE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGHLNOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start ALONGS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ALONGSHORE?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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