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CHUGS

/t͡ʃʌɡz/5 letters

Definition of CHUGS

noun

plural of chug

CHUG

noun

A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.

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Word DNA

CHUGS inherits its ancestry from its root, CHUG.

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, CHUG · 3 relatives in the game

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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.

CHUGS in OUTLIER

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

Day 1Day 160
Its 17 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
25
First board
159
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

marysaou

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHUGS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found CHUGS?

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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