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GROUNDLESS
Definition of GROUNDLESS
adjective
Without any grounds to support it; baseless.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English groundles (“bottomless”), from Old English grundlēas, from Proto-Germanic *grundulausaz, equivalent to ground + -less. Cognate with Dutch grondeloos, German Low German grundlos, German grundlos, Danish grundløs, Swedish grundlös.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GROUNDLESS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 124, 21 September 2026.
Built from these letters
GROUNDLESS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEGLNORSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GROUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GROUNDLESS?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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