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GRACIOUS
Definition of GRACIOUS
adjective
kind and warmly courteous
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Where it comes from
From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native Old English hold (“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRACIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GRACIOUS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACGIORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GRACIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found GRACIOUS?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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