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AMBEROUS

8 letters

Definition of AMBEROUS

adjective

amber-coloured

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From amber + -ous.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

AMBEROUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 2 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
41
First board
72
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.

First ever to find it

duquan

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AMBEROUS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start AMBERO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AMBEROUS?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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