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STRIGAE

7 letters

Definition of STRIGAE

noun

plural of striga

STRIGA

noun

A sharp bristle or hair-like scale.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

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.

STRIGAE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 14 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
92
First board
141
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 92, 20 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

clytemnestra

on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

STRIGAE
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

STRIGAE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGIRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start STRIGA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

STRIGASTRIGATE

Could you have found STRIGAE?

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 92 - and most players walked straight past it.

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