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SHUTOUT

/ˈʃʌtˌaʊt/7 letters

Definition of SHUTOUT

noun

Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Deverbal from shut out.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

SHUTOUT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
118
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

lisamarie

on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SHUTOUT
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SHUTOUT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read HOSTTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and T appear more than once.

Words that start SHUTOU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SHUTOUT?

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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.

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