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FAILURES

/ˈfeɪ.ljəz/8 letters

Definition of FAILURES

noun

plural of failure

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FAILURES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 45 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 32 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
4
First board
109
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 4, 25 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start FAILUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FAILURES?

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 4 - and most players walked straight past it.

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