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LATER
About LATER
LATER is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LATER in OUTLIER
It has fitted 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LATER starts with L and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AELRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LATER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LATER?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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