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GUARDIAN
Definition of GUARDIAN
noun
Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (927)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GUARDIAN · 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.
GUARDIAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 73 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GUARDIAN starts with G and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AADGINRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start GUARDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found GUARDIAN?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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