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SWITCHYARDS
Definition of SWITCHYARDS
noun
plural of switchyard
noun
Part of a railway with an arrangement of switches (or points) allowing trains to be diverted and reassembled.
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Word DNA
SWITCHYARDS inherits its ancestry from its root, SWITCHYARD.
How it is built
Same root, SWITCHYARD · 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.
SWITCHYARDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.
Built from these letters
SWITCHYARDS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDHIRSSTWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Could you have found SWITCHYARDS?
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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