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LEATS

5 letters

Definition of LEATS

noun

plural of leat

LEAT

noun

An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.

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Word DNA

LEATS inherits its ancestry from its root, LEAT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

7th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (976)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, LEAT · 1 relative in the game

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

LEATS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 146
Its 2 boards, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
86
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 60 days.

First ever to find it

caroline

on Day 86, 14 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

11 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found LEATS?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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