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LAYABOUT

/ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/8 letters

Definition of LAYABOUT

noun

A lazy person.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From lay + about.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

LAYABOUT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 16 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
28
First board
110
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

craig

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LAYABOUT
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

LAYABOUT starts with L and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AABLOTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start LAYABO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found LAYABOUT?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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