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WINGNUT

/ˈwɪŋˌnʌt/7 letters

Definition of WINGNUT

noun

A deciduous tree of the genus Pterocarya native to Asia.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From wing + nut. The political sense is a shortening of "right-wing nut".

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Same root, WINGNUT · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

WINGNUT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its 2 boards, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
154
First board
159
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

ali_jones

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WINGNUT
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WINGNU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WINGNUT?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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