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WATERLOO
About WATERLOO
WATERLOO is a valid 8-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.
WATERLOO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WATERLOO starts with W and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AELOORTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start WATERL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found WATERLOO?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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