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UNDERTOWS
Definition of UNDERTOWS
noun
plural of undertow
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Another sense
UNDERTOWS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of undertow.
Word DNA
UNDERTOWS inherits its ancestry from its root, UNDERTOW.
How it is built
Same root, UNDERTOW · 1 relative in the game
UNDERTOWS in a sentence
“The people-watching (behold the parade of bikinis and surfer shorts) is similar to the scene at Miami's South Beach (without the dangerous undertows), or Rio's Copacabana (minus a six-lane highway and crime).”
Dwight Brown: Aruba: The Beach Is Just the Beginning..., 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UNDERTOWS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 57 boards so far. 115 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
UNDERTOWS starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DENORSTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start UNDERT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found UNDERTOWS?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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