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GOWDS
About GOWDS
GOWDS is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
Same root, GOWD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GOWDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 54, 13 July 2026.
Built from these letters
GOWDS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DGOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found GOWDS?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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