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LOCOWEEDS

9 letters

Definition of LOCOWEEDS

noun

plural of locoweed

LOCOWEED

noun

Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.

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Word DNA

LOCOWEEDS inherits its ancestry from its root, LOCOWEED.

Line of descent

  1. Spanish
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Spanish

Deepest traced root

11th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.6%

of traced words share this origin (411)

Romance

branch · 15.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Every Spanish 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.

LOCOWEEDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 129
Its one board, across 129 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
125
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

fuschia_groan

on Day 130 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LOCOWEEDS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

LOCOWEEDS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEELOOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and E appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start LOCOWE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found LOCOWEEDS?

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 125 - and most players walked straight past it.

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