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GRATER
Definition of GRATER
noun
a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French grateor. See grate. By surface analysis, grate (“to scrape, etc.”) + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRATER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRATER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEGRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GRATER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRATER?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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