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TOWHEADS

8 letters

Definition of TOWHEADS

noun

plural of towhead

TOWHEAD

noun

A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.

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Word DNA

TOWHEADS inherits its ancestry from its root, TOWHEAD.

How it is built

nouncompound-head

Same root, TOWHEAD · 2 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

TOWHEADS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 32 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
43
First board
148
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

thatmisstake

on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TOWHEADS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start TOWHEA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TOWHEADS?

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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.

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