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SHYSTERS

8 letters

Definition of SHYSTERS

noun

plural of shyster

SHYSTER

noun

Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.

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Word DNA

SHYSTERS inherits its ancestry from its root, SHYSTER.

Line of descent

  1. German
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

German

Deepest traced root

8th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (2,845)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ster

Same root, SHYSTER · 1 relative in the game

Every German word → · 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.

SHYSTERS 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

vardibidian

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

Built from these letters

SHYSTERS
8
Letters
1
Vowels
7
Consonants
6
Different letters
5
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SHYSTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SHYSTERS?

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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