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INITIALERS

10 letters

Definition of INITIALERS

noun

plural of initialer

INITIALER

noun

The artist who decorates the initial letters in an illuminated manuscript.

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Word DNA

INITIALERS inherits its ancestry from its root, INITIAL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,695)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, INITIAL · 8 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

INITIALERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its 2 boards, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
155
First board
169
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

emjay

on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

INITIALERS
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

INITIALERS starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIIILNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start INITIA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INITIALINITIALSINITIATEINITIALEDINITIALERINITIALLYINITIATEDINITIATESINITIATORINITIALINGINITIALISEINITIALISM

Could you have found INITIALERS?

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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.

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