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INKWELLS

8 letters

Definition of INKWELLS

noun

plural of inkwell

INKWELL

noun

A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen (such as a dip pen or quill pen) into it whenever a refill is needed.

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Word DNA

INKWELLS inherits its ancestry from its root, INKWELL.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, INKWELL · 1 relative in the game

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.

INKWELLS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
167
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

zigzackly

on Day 167, 3 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

INKWELLS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INKWELLS starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIKLLNSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start INKWEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found INKWELLS?

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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.

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