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CLOUGHS

7 letters

Definition of CLOUGHS

noun

plural of clough

CLOUGH

noun

A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

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Word DNA

CLOUGHS inherits its ancestry from its root, CLOUGH.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. German
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,201)

How it is built

noun

Same root, CLOUGH · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Old Norse, Scots.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · 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.

CLOUGHS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 23 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
35
First board
156
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

ek66

on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CLOUGHS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CLOUGH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CLOUGHS?

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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.

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