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OVERSAUCE

9 letters

Definition of OVERSAUCE

verb

To cover (food) with too much sauce.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From over- + sauce.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

verbcompoundover-

Same root, OVERSAUCE · 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.

OVERSAUCE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 147
Its one board, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
143
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

annie221

on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

OVERSAUCE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEORSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start OVERSA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

OVERSADOVERSAWOVERSAILOVERSALEOVERSALTOVERSAVEOVERSAILSOVERSALESOVERSALTSOVERSAVEDOVERSAVESOVERSAILED

Could you have found OVERSAUCE?

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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.

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