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KINGLETS

8 letters

Definition of KINGLETS

noun

plural of kinglet

KINGLET

noun

A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory.

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Word DNA

KINGLETS inherits its ancestry from its root, KING.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,554)

How it is built

nouncompound-ing

Same root, KING · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Norwegian and 9 more.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

KINGLETS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 162
Its 15 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
57
First board
158
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 57, 16 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

nunnsuch

on Day 57, 16 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start KINGLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

KINGLEKINGLESKINGLETKINGLESS

Could you have found KINGLETS?

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 57 - and most players walked straight past it.

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