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LAUGHTER

/ˈlɑːftə/8 letters

Definition of LAUGHTER

noun

The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English laughter, laghter, laȝter, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout”). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment”), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter”), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter”). More at laugh.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Find it yourself

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

LAUGHTER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 127 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 99
Its 40 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
40
Boards found on
7
First board
99
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

LAUGHTER
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start LAUGHT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found LAUGHTER?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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