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CHINSTRAPS

10 letters

Definition of CHINSTRAPS

noun

plural of chinstrap

CHINSTRAP

noun

A strip of leather or material used to fasten a hat or helmet under the chin.

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Word DNA

CHINSTRAPS inherits its ancestry from its root, CHINSTRAP.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, CHINSTRAP · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CHINSTRAPS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 2 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
140
First board
162
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

finthecat4055

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHINSTRAPS
10
Letters
2
Vowels
8
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CHINSTRAPS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHINPRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start CHINST

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHINSTRAPS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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