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MASONRIES

9 letters

Definition of MASONRIES

noun

plural of masonry

MASONRY

noun

The art or occupation of a mason.

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Word DNA

MASONRIES inherits its ancestry from its root, MASONRY.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,430)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ry

Same root, MASONRY · 4 relatives in the game

Every Old French 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.

MASONRIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

lanerice

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MASONRIES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

ROMANISES

Words that start MASONR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MASONRIES?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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