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GUARDRAILS
Definition of GUARDRAILS
noun
plural of guardrail
GUARDRAIL
noun
A rail set alongside a dangerous place as a barrier, to improve safety.
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Word DNA
GUARDRAILS inherits its ancestry from its root, GUARDRAIL.
How it is built
Same root, GUARDRAIL · 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.
GUARDRAILS 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 1 day.
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
GUARDRAILS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADGILRRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once.
Words that start GUARDR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GUARDRAILS?
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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