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DREIDELS
Definition of DREIDELS
noun
plural of dreidel
noun
A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters נ (nun), ג (gimel), ה (hey), and ש (shin) (or פ (pey)) on each side, often used to play a traditional game during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
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Word DNA
DREIDELS inherits its ancestry from its root, DREIDEL.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,614)
How it is built
Same root, DREIDEL · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DREIDELS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DREIDELS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DDEEILRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.
Could you have found DREIDELS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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