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EPILOGUES

9 letters

Definition of EPILOGUES

noun

plural of epilogue

EPILOGUE

noun

A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play

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Word DNA

EPILOGUES inherits its ancestry from its root, EPILOGUE.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. Ancient Greek
  4. Latin
  5. Middle French
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (837)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-logueepi-

Same root, EPILOGUE · 2 relatives 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.

EPILOGUES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 47 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 146
Its 24 boards, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
15
First board
142
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

jvafai

on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EPILOGUES
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

EPILOGUES starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGILOPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start EPILOG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EPILOGEPILOGSEPILOGICEPILOGUEEPILOGISEEPILOGISTEPILOGIZEEPILOGUEDEPILOGICALEPILOGISEDEPILOGISESEPILOGISTS

Could you have found EPILOGUES?

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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.

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