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GRAPEFRUIT
Definition of GRAPEFRUIT
noun
The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Widely assumed to be a marketing term from grape + fruit, an allusion to the supposed grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree, early 19th c. Ciardi proposes another theory: one of the pomelo's botanical names is Citrus grandis, meaning “great citrus [fruit]”, due to the size of its fruit. A new pomelo variety might first have been called a GRAYT-froot (see greatfruit), and through the process of assimilation, the word came to be pronounced GRAYP-froot.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GRAPEFRUIT · 1 relative 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.
GRAPEFRUIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRAPEFRUIT starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEFGIPRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Could you have found GRAPEFRUIT?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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