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CLADS

5 letters

Definition of CLADS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of clad

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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.

CLADS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 6 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
41
First board
93
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

ember

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

CLADS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDLS - 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.

Could you have found CLADS?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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