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GRADERS

7 letters

Definition of GRADERS

noun

plural of grader

GRADER

noun

A machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.

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Word DNA

GRADERS inherits its ancestry from its root, GRADE.

Line of descent

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

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,506)

How it is built

noun

Same root, GRADE · 5 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

GRADERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its one board, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
152
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

macwiebe

on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GRADERS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GRADERS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEGRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

REGARDS

Words that start GRADER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GRADERS?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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