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GRACIOSO
Definition of GRACIOSO
noun
A court favourite.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Spanish gracioso. Doublet of gracious and grazioso.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Spanish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.5%
of traced words share this origin (437)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRACIOSO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 84, 12 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 64 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 84, 12 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRACIOSO starts with G and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACGIOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start GRACIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRACIOSO?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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