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GUARDEES
Definition of GUARDEES
noun
plural of guardee
noun
Any protein (involved in an immune system) that when modified by a pathogen becomes bound by a guard protein, precipitating the immune response
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Word DNA
GUARDEES inherits its ancestry from its root, GUARDEE.
How it is built
Same root, GUARDEE · 1 relative 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.
GUARDEES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GUARDEES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEEGRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start GUARDE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GUARDEES?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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