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YOUNGSTER

/ˈjʌŋstə/9 letters

Definition of YOUNGSTER

noun

A young person.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From young + -ster. Attested from the early 17th century.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-ster

Same root, YOUNGSTER · 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.

YOUNGSTER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 143
Its 41 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
41
Boards found on
4
First board
143
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 4, 25 May 2026.

Built from these letters

YOUNGSTER
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

YOUNGSTER starts with Y and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EGNORSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start YOUNGS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found YOUNGSTER?

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 4 - and most players walked straight past it.

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