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NOONTIDES

9 letters

Definition of NOONTIDES

noun

plural of noontide

NOONTIDE

noun

Midday, noon.

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Word DNA

NOONTIDES inherits its ancestry from its root, NOONTIDE.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,167)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, NOONTIDE · 1 relative in the game

Every Old English word → · 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.

NOONTIDES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its 2 boards, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
159
First board
166
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

sarahpc

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NOONTIDES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

NOONTIDES starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEINNOOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and O appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start NOONTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found NOONTIDES?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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