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LAMB
Definition of LAMB
noun
A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-. See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LAMB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
LAMB starts with L and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read ABLM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LAMB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found LAMB?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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