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OUTGUARDS

9 letters

Definition of OUTGUARDS

noun

plural of outguard

OUTGUARD

noun

A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy.

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Word DNA

OUTGUARDS inherits its ancestry from its root, OUTGUARD.

How it is built

nouncompoundout-

Same root, OUTGUARD · 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.

OUTGUARDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 129
Its 2 boards, across 129 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
129
Latest board
57
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

bluegreen

on Day 129, 26 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OUTGUARDS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

OUTGUARDS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADGORSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Words that start OUTGUA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OUTGUARDS?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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