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LEUDS

5 letters

Definition of LEUDS

noun

plural of leud

LEUD

noun

A Frankish vassal or tenant in the Early Middle Ages.

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Word DNA

LEUDS inherits its ancestry from its root, LEUD.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Frankish
  4. Latin
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,259)

How it is built

noun

Same root, LEUD · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

Every Proto-Indo-European 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.

LEUDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 4 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
72
First board
152
Latest board
52
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

metaleroPATRON

on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

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

Could you have found LEUDS?

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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