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LUAUS

5 letters

Definition of LUAUS

noun

plural of luau

LUAU

noun

An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.

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Word DNA

LUAUS inherits its ancestry from its root, LUAU.

Line of descent

  1. Hawaiian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Hawaiian

Deepest traced root

43rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.1%

of traced words share this origin (27)

Austronesian

branch · 0.5% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, LUAU · 1 relative in the game

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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.

LUAUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 17 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
25
First board
141
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

rainy

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LUAUS
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

LUAUS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ALSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found LUAUS?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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