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MODIFIERS

9 letters

Definition of MODIFIERS

noun

plural of modifier

MODIFIER

noun

One who, or that which, modifies.

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Word DNA

MODIFIERS inherits its ancestry from its root, MODIFY.

Line of descent

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

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,170)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, MODIFY · 4 relatives in the game

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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.

MODIFIERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 11 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
28
First board
161
Latest board
41
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

yaoi

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start MODIFI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MODIFIEDMODIFIERMODIFIESMODIFIABLEMODIFICATESMODIFICATIONMODIFIABILITYMODIFICATIONSMODIFIABILITIES

Could you have found MODIFIERS?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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