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ALERCES
About ALERCES
ALERCES is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ALERCES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALERCES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEELRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ALERCE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALERCES?
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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.
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