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LAZE

/leɪz/4 letters

Definition of LAZE

verb

To be lazy, waste time.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Back-formation from lazy.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

LAZE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
55
First board
107
Latest board
52
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

foxetrotSUPPORTER

on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LAZE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

LAZE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AELZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start LAZE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found LAZE?

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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.

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