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DOUBLETS

8 letters

Definition of DOUBLETS

noun

plural of doublet

DOUBLET

noun

A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.

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Word DNA

DOUBLETS inherits its ancestry from its root, DOUBLET.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (829)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-et

Same root, DOUBLET · 1 relative in the game

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

DOUBLETS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 121 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 143
Its 38 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
28
First board
142
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

enigma

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOUBLETS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start DOUBLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DOUBLETS?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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