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GHASTLIER
Definition of GHASTLIER
adjective
comparative form of ghastly: more ghastly
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Word DNA
GHASTLIER inherits its ancestry from its root, GHASTLY.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,855)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GHASTLY · 1 relative in the game
GHASTLIER in a sentence
“Taking a breather from our Gulf Coast miasma in order to focus on an even ghastlier blight of cultural crude washing up on American shores.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GHASTLIER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 73 boards so far. 205 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GHASTLIER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEGHILRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GHASTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found GHASTLIER?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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