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WAISTCOAT
Definition of WAISTCOAT
noun
An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From waist + coat. Compare Yola wauscoat, wazcoote.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WAISTCOAT · 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.
WAISTCOAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 138, 5 October 2026.
Built from these letters
WAISTCOAT starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AACIOSTTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.
Words that start WAISTC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WAISTCOAT?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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