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AUGHT

/ɔːt/5 letters

Definition of AUGHT

pronoun

Anything whatsoever, any part.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

AUGHT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 45 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 27 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
35
First board
119
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

craig

on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AUGHT
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start AUGHT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AUGHT?

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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.

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