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INWINDS

7 letters

Definition of INWINDS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of inwind

INWIND

verb

To wind inward.

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Word DNA

INWINDS inherits its ancestry from its root, INWIND.

How it is built

verbcompoundin-

Same root, INWIND · 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.

INWINDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its 2 boards, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
139
First board
169
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

geovincent

on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

INWINDS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INWINDS starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DIINNSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and N appear more than once.

Words that start INWIND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INWINDINWINDING

Could you have found INWINDS?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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