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WINDHOVERS

10 letters

Definition of WINDHOVERS

noun

plural of windhover

WINDHOVER

noun

The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).

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Word DNA

WINDHOVERS inherits its ancestry from its root, WINDHOVER.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, WINDHOVER · 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.

WINDHOVERS in OUTLIER

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

Day 1Day 141
Its 17 boards, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
46
First board
139
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

pricklypoetess

on Day 46, 5 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WINDHOVERS
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WINDHO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WINDHOVERS?

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 46 - and most players walked straight past it.

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