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WORTS

/wɜːts/5 letters

Definition of WORTS

noun

A soup or stew made with worts (“vegetables”) and other ingredients such as meat.

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Another sense

WORTS carries a second meaning.

  1. noun

    Plural form of wort.

Where it comes from

From wort + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plural forms of nouns).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun1 syllablecompound

Same root, WORT · 1 relative in the game

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WORTS in a sentence

“We probably have the same level of worry-worts who run to the doctor every time they get a sniffle as we did 40 years ago just like we have some people who never go to the doctor even though it would cost them nothing.”

Health Care Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty, 2009

Rarity score
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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.

WORTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 36 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
36
Boards found on
28
First board
149
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

bambi

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WORTS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found WORTS?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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