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DELIGHTS

/dɪˈlaɪts/8 letters

Definition of DELIGHTS

noun

plural of delight

DELIGHT

noun

Joy; pleasure.

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Word DNA

DELIGHTS inherits its ancestry from its root, DELIGHT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,643)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-ight

Same root, DELIGHT · 3 relatives in the game

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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.

DELIGHTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 146
Its 31 boards, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
31
Boards found on
8
First board
142
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

DELIGHTS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DELIGHTS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEGHILST - 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.

Words that start DELIGH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DELIGHTDELIGHTEDDELIGHTERDELIGHTERSDELIGHTFULDELIGHTINGDELIGHTEDLYDELIGHTLESSDELIGHTSOMEDELIGHTFULLYDELIGHTEDNESSDELIGHTFULNESS

Could you have found DELIGHTS?

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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