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WARTHOGS

8 letters

Definition of WARTHOGS

noun

plural of warthog

WARTHOG

noun

A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa.

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Word DNA

WARTHOGS inherits its ancestry from its root, WARTHOG.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, WARTHOG · 1 relative in the game

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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.

WARTHOGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 105 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 162
Its 49 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
49
Boards found on
25
First board
159
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

topherookie

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WARTHOGS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WARTHO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WARTHOGS?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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