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SHINGUARDS

10 letters

Definition of SHINGUARDS

noun

plural of shinguard

SHINGUARD

noun

A piece of apparel to protect the front of the lower leg (the shin), usually worn when playing sports.

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Word DNA

SHINGUARDS inherits its ancestry from its root, SHINGUARD.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, SHINGUARD · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

SHINGUARDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its one board, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

buck50

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

Built from these letters

SHINGUARDS
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SHINGU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SHINGUARDS?

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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