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GRADIANS

8 letters

Definition of GRADIANS

noun

plural of gradian

GRADIAN

noun

A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degree, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle.

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Word DNA

GRADIANS inherits its ancestry from its root, GRADIAN.

How it is built

noun

Same root, GRADIAN · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

GRADIANS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 3 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
143
First board
163
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

johnnyphotonic

on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GRADIANS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start GRADIA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GRADIANS?

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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.

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