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LATERS
About LATERS
LATERS is a valid 6-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.
Word DNA
LATERS inherits its ancestry from its root, LATER.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,761)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LATERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LATERS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AELRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
12 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found LATERS?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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