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OVERSAW

/oʊ.vɚ.sɔ/7 letters

Definition of OVERSAW

verb

simple past of oversee

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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.

OVERSAW in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 2 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
98
First board
101
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

bridger

on Day 98, 26 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OVERSAW
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

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

AVOWERSREAVOWS

Words that start OVERSA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

OVERSADOVERSAILOVERSALEOVERSALTOVERSAVEOVERSAILSOVERSALESOVERSALTSOVERSAUCEOVERSAVEDOVERSAVESOVERSAILED

Could you have found OVERSAW?

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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.

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