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GRAUPEL
Definition of GRAUPEL
noun
A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.
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Other senses
GRAUPEL carries 3 further meanings.
noun
Precipitation consisting of snow pellets.
noun
A form of soft hail or half-melted snow or sleet.
noun
The result of this process, a small ball of rime.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Graupel(wetter) (literally “graupel (weather)”). Graupel is a back-formation from graupeln (“to hail (with soft hailstones)”) + -el (diminutive suffix); and graupeln is from Graupe (“hulled grain, pearl barley”) (ultimately from Proto-Slavic *krūpà (“grainy substance; groats; hail”) and Proto-Indo-European *krewp-) + -eln (suffix forming verbs, often with a diminutive or frequentative sense).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,293)
How it is built
Same root, GRAUPEL · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
GRAUPEL in a sentence
“But even below that, there was the type of frozen precipitation known as graupel, which "certainly looked like real snow," said Stuart Seto, a specialist at the weather service.”
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GRAUPEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 99 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRAUPEL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEGLPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found GRAUPEL?
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