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DRAUGHTS

/dɹɑːfts/8 letters

Definition of DRAUGHTS

noun

plural of draught

DRAUGHT

noun

Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.

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Word DNA

DRAUGHTS inherits its ancestry from its root, DRAUGHT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (981)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllablecompound

Same root, DRAUGHT · 4 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Germanic 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.

DRAUGHTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 67 boards so far. 156 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 67 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
67
Boards found on
7
First board
150
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start DRAUGH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DRAUGHTS?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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