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WOUNDER
Definition of WOUNDER
noun
One who wounds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WOUNDER carries 2 further meanings.
noun
One who or that which wounds.
noun
One who, or that which, wounds.
Where it comes from
From wound + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WOUND · 4 relatives in the game
WOUNDER in a sentence
“I wounder if they are going to break the world record they set with 3”
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WOUNDER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 58 boards so far. 128 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WOUNDER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DENORUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 WOUNDE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found WOUNDER?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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