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GRANTEES

8 letters

Definition of GRANTEES

noun

plural of grantee

GRANTEE

noun

The person to whom something is granted.

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Word DNA

GRANTEES inherits its ancestry from its root, GRANTEE.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,408)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ee

Same root, GRANTEE · 1 relative in the game

Every Old French 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.

GRANTEES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 12 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
47
First board
149
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

tash

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

GRANTEES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEGNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start GRANTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GRANTEES?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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