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TWILIGHTS
Definition of TWILIGHTS
noun
plural of twilight
noun
The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
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Word DNA
TWILIGHTS inherits its ancestry from its root, TWILIGHT.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,164)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TWILIGHT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German, Old English, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TWILIGHTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TWILIGHTS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GHIILSTTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and I appear more than once.
Words that start TWILIG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TWILIGHTS?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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