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CLOTHES
Definition of CLOTHES
noun
Items of clothing; apparel.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English clothes, cloþes (plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”)), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”, plural of clāþ (“cloth”)), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Dutch klederen, kleren (“clothes”), German Kleider (“clothes”), Danish klæder (“clothes”), Swedish kläder (“clothes”), Norwegian Bokmål klær (“clothes”), Norwegian Nynorsk klede (“clothes”), Faroese klæði, klæðir (“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.
CLOTHES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CLOTHES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEHLOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CLOTHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CLOTHES?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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