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NEDS

/nɛdz/4 letters

Definition of NEDS

noun

plural of ned

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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.

NEDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its one board, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
66
First board
55
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 55 days.

First ever to find it

lalaloopsie

on Day 66, 25 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

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

Could you have found NEDS?

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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.

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