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SOUGHS

6 letters

Definition of SOUGHS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sough

SOUGH

verb

To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.

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Word DNA

SOUGHS inherits its ancestry from its root, SOUGH.

Line of descent

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

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

8.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,636)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SOUGH · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Icelandic, Scots.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SOUGHS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 151
Its 2 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
76
First board
124
Latest board
48
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.

First ever to find it

elizaeffect

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SOUGHS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found SOUGHS?

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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.

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