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GRANDFATHERED
Definition of GRANDFATHERED
adjective
Of a policy, document, or other legality, that has retained discontinued laws or rules or that has been exempted from new regulation.
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Word DNA
GRANDFATHERED inherits its ancestry from its root, GRANDFATHER.
Line of descent
- Middle French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (913)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GRANDFATHER · 2 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.
GRANDFATHERED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 35 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRANDFATHERED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADDEEFGHNRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, A, D and E appear more than once.
Words that start GRANDFATH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRANDFATHERED?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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