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ETAERIOS

8 letters

Definition of ETAERIOS

noun

plural of etaerio

ETAERIO

noun

An aggregate fruit comprised of achenes, drupelets, follicles, or berries.

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Word DNA

ETAERIOS inherits its ancestry from its root, ETAERIO.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.4%

of traced words share this origin (10,145)

Hellenic

branch · 12.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, ETAERIO · 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.

ETAERIOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its 9 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
88
First board
147
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

kilgallen

on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

ETAERIOS
8
Letters
5
Vowels
3
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start ETAERI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ETAERIOS?

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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.

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