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GRAUPELS

8 letters

Definition of GRAUPELS

noun

plural of graupel

GRAUPEL

noun

A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.

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Word DNA

GRAUPELS inherits its ancestry from its root, GRAUPEL.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Slavic
  3. German
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

9%

of traced words share this origin (2,614)

How it is built

nouncompound-el-eln

Same root, GRAUPEL · 1 relative in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European 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.

GRAUPELS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 146
Its 21 boards, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
55
First board
144
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

kimariyan

on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

GRAUPELS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGLPRSU - 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.

Words that start GRAUPE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GRAUPELS?

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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.

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