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ANTS

/ænts/4 letters

Definition of ANTS

noun

plural of ant

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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.

ANTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 7 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
25
First board
120
Latest board
43
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

vanadia23

on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

ANTS
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ANTS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ANST - 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 ANTS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ANTSYANTSIERANTSIESTANTSINESSANTSINESSES

Could you have found ANTS?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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