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CLAES
Definition of CLAES
noun
clothes
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Variant of clathes, from Middle English clathes, from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”). More at clothes.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLAES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CLAES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACELS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found CLAES?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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