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BELIEFS

7 letters

Definition of BELIEFS

noun

plural of belief

BELIEF

noun

Mental acceptance of a claim as true.

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Word DNA

BELIEFS inherits its ancestry from its root, BELIEF.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (981)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, BELIEF · 1 relative in the game

Every Proto-Germanic 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.

BELIEFS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 21 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
7
First board
146
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

BELIEFS
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BELIEFS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEEFILS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start BELIEF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BELIEFBELIEFLESS

Could you have found BELIEFS?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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