The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GRADER
Definition of GRADER
noun
A machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From grade + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GRADE · 5 relatives 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.
GRADER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRADER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ADEGRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found GRADER?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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