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ACCORDIONS
Definition of ACCORDIONS
noun
plural of accordion
noun
A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
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Word DNA
ACCORDIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, ACCORDION.
Line of descent
- Italian
- Old French
- German
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.8%
of traced words share this origin (481)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ACCORDION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ACCORDIONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACCORDIONS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCDINOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and O appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ACCORD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACCORDIONS?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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