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WAIFS

5 letters

Definition of WAIFS

noun

plural of waif

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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.

WAIFS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 75 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 35 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
35
Boards found on
24
First board
95
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Could you have found WAIFS?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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