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EARTHIER

8 letters

Definition of EARTHIER

adjective

comparative form of earthy: more earthy

EARTHY

adjective

Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).

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Word DNA

EARTHIER inherits its ancestry from its root, EARTHY.

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

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (4,849)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, EARTHY · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names German, Swedish.

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

EARTHIER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its one board, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

adamj

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EARTHIER
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

EARTHIER starts with E and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEEHIRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and R appear more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start EARTHI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EARTHILYEARTHINGEARTHIESTEARTHINESSEARTHINESSES

Could you have found EARTHIER?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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