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ALERIONS

8 letters

Definition of ALERIONS

noun

plural of alerion

ALERION

noun

A heraldic eagle, especially one displayed without legs/feet or beak.

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Word DNA

ALERIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, ALERION.

Line of descent

  1. Middle French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle French

Deepest traced root

13th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.1%

of traced words share this origin (336)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, ALERION · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle French word → · 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.

ALERIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 150
Its 3 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
72
First board
148
Latest board
70
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

bingeworthy

on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ALERIONS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ALERIONS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEILNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start ALERIO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ALERIONS?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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