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STOW
Definition of STOW
noun
A place, stead.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”), German Stau (“congestion”). See also -stow.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STOW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 74, 2 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
STOW starts with S and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read OSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start STOW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found STOW?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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