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LYRAS

5 letters

Definition of LYRAS

noun

plural of lyra

LYRA

noun

The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain.

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Word DNA

LYRAS inherits its ancestry from its root, LYRA.

How it is built

noun

Same root, LYRA · 1 relative in the game

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.

LYRAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its 3 boards, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
155
First board
166
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

sandcastlekings

on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

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

Could you have found LYRAS?

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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.

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