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YARDARM

7 letters

Definition of YARDARM

noun

The outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From yard + arm.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, YARDARM · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

YARDARM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 2 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
152
First board
155
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First found by a player on Day 152, 19 October 2026.

Built from these letters

YARDARM
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

YARDARM starts with Y and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AADMRRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once.

Words that start YARDAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found YARDARM?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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