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LAWNS

5 letters

Definition of LAWNS

noun

plural of lawn

LAWN

noun

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

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Word DNA

LAWNS inherits its ancestry from its root, LAWN.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,575)

How it is built

noun

Same root, LAWN · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English, Old Norse.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

LAWNS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 4 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
91
First board
150
Latest board
42
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

possumgirlPATRON

on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LAWNS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found LAWNS?

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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.

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