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AWAITERS

8 letters

Definition of AWAITERS

noun

plural of awaiter

AWAITER

noun

One who awaits.

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Word DNA

AWAITERS inherits its ancestry from its root, AWAITER.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,275)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Every Middle English 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.

AWAITERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 152
Its 6 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
43
First board
139
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

dodechotomy

on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AWAITERS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AWAITERS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEIRSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start AWAITE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AWAITERS?

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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.

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