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REDLEG

6 letters

Definition of REDLEG

noun

A bird, the redshank.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From red + leg.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

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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.

REDLEG in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 137
Its 2 boards, across 137 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
133
First board
137
Latest board
4
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 133, 30 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

ejabrown

on Day 133, 30 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

REDLEG
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

REDLEG starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEEGLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start REDLEG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found REDLEG?

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 133 - and most players walked straight past it.

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