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GRIDIRONED

10 letters

Definition of GRIDIRONED

verb

simple past and past participle of gridiron

GRIDIRON

noun

An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.

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Word DNA

GRIDIRONED inherits its ancestry from its root, GRIDIRON.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,144)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, GRIDIRON · 2 relatives in the game

Every Middle English 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.

GRIDIRONED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
141
First board
28
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.

First ever to find it

nameless

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GRIDIRONED
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GRIDIRONED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEGIINORR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, I and D appear more than once.

Words that start GRIDIR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GRIDIRONED?

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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.

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