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WATERSCAPE
Definition of WATERSCAPE
noun
An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Its etymology also names Middle Dutch, Middle English, Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WATERSCAPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 44 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
WATERSCAPE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEEPRSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.
Words that start WATERS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WATERSCAPE?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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