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NACHES

/ˈnɑx.əs/6 letters

Definition of NACHES

noun

A feeling of contentment at another person's successes.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Yiddish נחת (nakhes), from Hebrew נַחַת (nákhat, “contentment”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Revealed only in play
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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.

NACHES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 5 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
75
First board
105
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

liz

on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NACHES
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NACHES starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHNS - 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 NACHES?

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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.

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