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SAILBOAT

/ˈseɪlˌbəʊt/8 letters

Definition of SAILBOAT

noun

A boat propelled by a sail.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From sail + boat.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Same root, SAILBOAT · 2 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

SAILBOAT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 142
Its 15 boards, across 142 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
23
First board
135
Latest board
46
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.

Built from these letters

SAILBOAT
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SAILBOAT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AABILOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start SAILBO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SAILBOARDSAILBOATSSAILBOARDSSAILBOATERSAILBOARDEDSAILBOARDERSAILBOATERSSAILBOATINGSAILBOARDINGSAILBOATINGSSAILBOARDINGS

Could you have found SAILBOAT?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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