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SOFTWARES

9 letters

Definition of SOFTWARES

noun

plural of software

SOFTWARE

noun

Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).

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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.

SOFTWARES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 125
Its one board, across 125 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
124
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

wetlick

on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SOFTWARES
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SOFTWARES starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEFORSSTW - 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.

FORWASTES

Words that start SOFTWA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SOFTWARES?

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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.

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