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SKORTS

6 letters

Definition of SKORTS

noun

plural of skort

SKORT

noun

A pair of shorts designed to look like a skirt via the addition of a panel of fabric.

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Word DNA

SKORTS inherits its ancestry from its root, SKORT.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, SKORT · 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.

SKORTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its one board, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
19
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

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on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SKORTS
6
Letters
1
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

STORKSTORSKS

Could you have found SKORTS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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