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INTERVALS

/ˈɪntɚvəlz/9 letters

Definition of INTERVALS

noun

plural of interval

INTERVAL

noun

A distance in space.

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Word DNA

INTERVALS inherits its ancestry from its root, INTERVAL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,981)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Same root, INTERVAL · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

INTERVALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 20 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
25
First board
157
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

INTERVALS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INTERVALS starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEILNRSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start INTERV

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INTERVALINTERVALEINTERVEININTERVENEINTERVIEWINTERVALEDINTERVALESINTERVEINSINTERVENEDINTERVENERINTERVENESINTERVENOR

Could you have found INTERVALS?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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