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WANTS
About WANTS
WANTS is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WANTS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 85, 13 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 51, 10 July 2026.
Built from these letters
WANTS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ANSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found WANTS?
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 85 - and most players walked straight past it.
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