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GRITTED
Definition of GRITTED
verb
simple past and past participle of grit
noun
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
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Word DNA
GRITTED inherits its ancestry from its root, GRIT.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (994)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GRIT · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRITTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRITTED starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEGIRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GRITTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRITTED?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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