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LYRATED

7 letters

Definition of LYRATED

adjective

Alternative form of lyrate.

LYRATE

adjective

Shaped like a lyre.

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Word DNA

LYRATED inherits its ancestry from its root, LYRATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,696)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ate

Same root, LYRATE · 1 relative 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.

LYRATED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 148
Its 4 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
72
First board
135
Latest board
51
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

amytornis

on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LYRATED
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

LYRATED starts with L and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADELRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start LYRATE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

LYRATELYRATELY

Could you have found LYRATED?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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