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GRIEVANCES

/ˈɡɹiː.vən.sɪz/10 letters

Definition of GRIEVANCES

noun

plural of grievance

GRIEVANCE

noun

Something which causes grief.

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Word DNA

GRIEVANCES inherits its ancestry from its root, GRIEVANCE.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (829)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound-ance

Same root, GRIEVANCE · 1 relative in the game

Every Old French 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.

GRIEVANCES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 47 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 142
Its 32 boards, across 142 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
28
First board
138
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

peejayc

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GRIEVANCES
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GRIEVANCES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEEGINRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start GRIEVA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GRIEVANCES?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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