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SAILBOATS

9 letters

Definition of SAILBOATS

noun

plural of sailboat

SAILBOAT

noun

A boat propelled by a sail.

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Word DNA

SAILBOATS inherits its ancestry from its root, SAILBOAT.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, SAILBOAT · 3 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.

SAILBOATS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

entombedliving

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SAILBOATS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SAILBOATS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABILOSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and A appear more than once.

Words that start SAILBO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SAILBOATSAILBOARDSAILBOARDSSAILBOATERSAILBOARDEDSAILBOARDERSAILBOATERSSAILBOATINGSAILBOARDINGSAILBOATINGSSAILBOARDINGS

Could you have found SAILBOATS?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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