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WOODLANDS
Definition of WOODLANDS
noun
plural of woodland
WOODLAND
adjective
Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
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Word DNA
WOODLANDS inherits its ancestry from its root, WOODLAND.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,197)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WOODLAND · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German, Icelandic, Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WOODLANDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WOODLANDS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADDLNOOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and D appear more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WOODLA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WOODLANDS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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