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LOCKHOUSE
Definition of LOCKHOUSE
noun
A house, often small, beside a canal or river lock, usually occupied by the lockkeeper (locktender) in centuries past, and in some places still so occupied today.
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Where it comes from
From lock + house.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LOCKHOUSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LOCKHOUSE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEHKLOOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start LOCKHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LOCKHOUSE?
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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.
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