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GRACE

/ɡɹeɪs/5 letters

Definition of GRACE

noun

Charming, pleasing qualities.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful. The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)).

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Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,201)

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, GRACE · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

GRACE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 18 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
34
First board
154
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.

Built from these letters

GRACE
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GRACE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEGR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 GRACE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GRACEDGRACESGRACEFULGRACELESSGRACEFULLYGRACEFULLERGRACELESSLYGRACEFULLESTGRACEFULNESSGRACELESSNESSGRACEFULNESSESGRACELESSNESSES

Could you have found GRACE?

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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