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NEATHERD
About NEATHERD
NEATHERD is a valid 8-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NEATHERD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 79, 7 August 2026.
Built from these letters
NEATHERD starts with N and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEEHNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 NEATHERD?
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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.
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