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GARDENIAS
Definition of GARDENIAS
noun
plural of gardenia
noun
Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus Gardenia, having glossy leaves and white flowers.
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Word DNA
GARDENIAS inherits its ancestry from its root, GARDENIA.
How it is built
Same root, GARDENIA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GARDENIAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 51 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GARDENIAS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADEGINRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears 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 GARDEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found GARDENIAS?
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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