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LOUIS
Definition of LOUIS
noun
Any gold or silver coin issued by the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVI and bearing their image on the obverse side, particularly the gold louis d'ors, originally a French form of the Spanish doubloon but varying in value between 10 and 24 livres.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French louis, from Louis, the name of the French kings who first issued these coins and whose images appeared on their obverses.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,061)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LOUIS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 66 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 96, 24 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LOUIS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ILOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found LOUIS?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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