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WASHOUTS

8 letters

Definition of WASHOUTS

noun

plural of washout

WASHOUT

noun

An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.

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Word DNA

WASHOUTS inherits its ancestry from its root, WASHOUT.

How it is built

noun

Same root, WASHOUT · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

WASHOUTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 2 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
124
First board
162
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First found by a player on Day 124, 21 September 2026.

Built from these letters

WASHOUTS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WASHOUTS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AHOSSTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start WASHOU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WASHOUTS?

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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.

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