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DOUTS

5 letters

Definition of DOUTS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of dout

DOUBT · via dout

verb

To consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.

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Word DNA

DOUTS inherits its ancestry from its root, DOUT.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (4,849)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, DOUT · 3 relatives in the game

Every Middle English 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.

DOUTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its 10 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
70
First board
158
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

laurd_69

on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Could you have found DOUTS?

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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.

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