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OVERSALT

8 letters

Definition of OVERSALT

verb

To add too much salt to (something)

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From over- + salt.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

OVERSALT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 5 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
91
First board
102
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

ironshoulder

on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OVERSALT
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OVERSALT starts with O and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AELORSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start OVERSA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

OVERSADOVERSAWOVERSAILOVERSALEOVERSAVEOVERSAILSOVERSALESOVERSALTSOVERSAUCEOVERSAVEDOVERSAVESOVERSAILED

Could you have found OVERSALT?

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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.

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