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SKYERS

6 letters

Definition of SKYERS

Wiktionary has no entry for SKYERS itself. This is its base word, SKYE.

noun

Obsolete form of sky.

SKY

symbol

ISO 639-3 language code for Sikaiana.

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Word DNA

SKYERS inherits its ancestry from its root, SKY.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Old English
  3. Proto-Germanic
  4. Old Norse
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,132)

How it is built

noun

Same root, SKY · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Irish, Latin, Norwegian, Sanskrit, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European 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.

SKYERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

maryhelenPATRON

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

SKYRES

Could you have found SKYERS?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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