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STAYSAILS
Definition of STAYSAILS
noun
plural of staysail
noun
A fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast.
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Word DNA
STAYSAILS inherits its ancestry from its root, STAYSAIL.
How it is built
Same root, STAYSAIL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STAYSAILS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STAYSAILS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAILSSSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and A appear more than once.
Could you have found STAYSAILS?
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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