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POSTLUDE

/ˈpəʊstluːd/8 letters

Definition of POSTLUDE

noun

The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.

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Where it comes from

From post- + Latin lūdus (“play”) (modelled on prelude).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

POSTLUDE 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
97
First board
98
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

279732

on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

POSTLUDE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DELOPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start POSTLU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

POSTLUDES

Could you have found POSTLUDE?

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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.

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