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CHILDER

/ˈt͡ʃɪldə(ɹ)/7 letters

Definition of CHILDER

noun

Plural of child.

CHILD

noun

A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English childer, childre, from Old English ċildra, ċildru.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,908)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, CHILD · 7 relatives in the game

Every Old 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.

CHILDER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 28 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
34
First board
158
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

aspens

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

Built from these letters

CHILDER
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CHILDER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CDEHILR - 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 CHILDE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHILDER?

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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.

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