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LAUGH

/lɐːf/5 letters

Definition of LAUGH

noun

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English laughen, laghen, from (Anglian) Old English hlæhhan, hlehhan, (West Saxon) hliehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną. Germanic: Scots lauch (“to laugh”), Yola leeigh, leigh (“to laugh”), North Frisian laache, lachi, laake, loache, lååke (“to laugh”), Saterland Frisian laachje (“to laugh”), West Frisian laitsje (“to laugh”), Alemannic German lache (“to laugh”), Cimbrian lachan (“to laugh”), Dutch, German, and Low German lachen (“to laugh”), Luxembourgish laachen (“to laugh”), Yiddish לאַכן (lakhn, “to laugh”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish le (“to laugh”), Elfdalian läa (“to laugh”), Faroese læa (“to laugh”), Icelandic hlæja (“to laugh”), Norwegian Nynorsk le, læ, læja (“to laugh”), Crimean Gothic lachen (“to laugh”), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hlahjan, “to laugh”). Indo-European: Breton kloc'h (“bell”), Irish clog (“bell; clock”), Manx and Scottish Gaelic clag (“bell”), Welsh cloch (“bell”), Russian клекота́ть (klekotátʹ), клокота́ть (klokotátʹ), клохта́ть (kloxtátʹ, “to cluck, cackle”).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

LAUGH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 121
Its 30 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
30
Boards found on
10
First board
117
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.

Built from these letters

LAUGH
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

LAUGH starts with L and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AGHLU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start LAUGH

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