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LEAD
About LEAD
LEAD is a valid 4-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEAD in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LEAD starts with L and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LEAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LEAD?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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