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WRASSE
Definition of WRASSE
noun
Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WRASSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WRASSE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AERSSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WRASSE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WRASSE?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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