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GREYBACKS

9 letters

Definition of GREYBACKS

noun

plural of greyback

GREYBACK

noun

A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).

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Word DNA

GREYBACKS inherits its ancestry from its root, GREYBACK.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, GREYBACK · 1 relative in the game

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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.

GREYBACKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its one board, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
144
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

jamesqbond

on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GREYBACKS
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start GREYBA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GREYBACKS?

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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.

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