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DOLERITES

9 letters

Definition of DOLERITES

noun

plural of dolerite

DOLERITE

noun

A type of fine-grained basaltic rock.

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Word DNA

DOLERITES inherits its ancestry from its root, DOLERITE.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,789)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ite

Same root, DOLERITE · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek 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.

DOLERITES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 152
Its 5 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
53
First board
131
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 53, 12 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

badgerbadgerPATRON

on Day 53, 12 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOLERITES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start DOLERI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DOLERITES?

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 53 - and most players walked straight past it.

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