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YOWE
Definition of YOWE
noun
A ewe; a female sheep.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English yowe, yeue, variant forms of ewe, from Old English eowu. Compare doublet ewe and Scots yowe.
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.
YOWE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
YOWE starts with Y and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EOWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found YOWE?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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