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WATCHOUT

8 letters

Definition of WATCHOUT

noun

A lookout; a person who stands guard watching for something.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Deverbal from watch out.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

WATCHOUT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 119
Its one board, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
111
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

lucygraceSUPPORTER

on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start WATCHO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WATCHOUTS

Could you have found WATCHOUT?

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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.

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