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BELTWAYS

8 letters

Definition of BELTWAYS

noun

plural of beltway

BELTWAY

noun

A freeway that encircles a city.

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Word DNA

BELTWAYS inherits its ancestry from its root, BELTWAY.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, BELTWAY · 1 relative in the game

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.

BELTWAYS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 17 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
36
First board
157
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BELTWAYS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BELTWA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BELTWAYS?

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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.

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