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LATHE
Definition of LATHE
verb
To invite; bid; ask.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
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.
LATHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LATHE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHLT - 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 LATHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found LATHE?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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