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WINDSUCKER
Definition of WINDSUCKER
noun
A horse with the habit of windsucking.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From wind + sucker. Where the bird or term of abuse sense is concerned, some believe the word is a recent bowdlerization of windfucker; however, it appears since at least the 17th century. See the etymology of windfucker.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WINDSUCKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 102, 30 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WINDSUCKER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CDEIKNRSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WINDSU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WINDSUCKER?
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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.
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