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WURST

/wɝst/5 letters

Definition of WURST

noun

A German- or Austrian-style sausage.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

First attested in 1890. Borrowed from German Wurst (“sausage, wurst”), from Middle High German wurst, from Old High German wurst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti (“something turned or twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert-, *werd- (“to turn”). Akin to Old Saxon worst (“wurst”), Old English weorþan (“to turn, become”). Doublet of wors. Unrelated to worsted (“type of yarn”). More at worth (“to be, become, betide”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

WURST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 178 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 49 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
49
Boards found on
22
First board
102
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

beckym71

on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start WURST

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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