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ORANGIEST

9 letters

Definition of ORANGIEST

adjective

superlative form of orangey: most orangey

ORANGEY

adjective

Somewhat orange in colour.

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Word DNA

ORANGIEST inherits its ancestry from its root, ORANGE.

Line of descent

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Persian
  3. Arabic
  4. Italian
  5. Old Occitan
  6. Old French
  7. Middle English
  8. English

7 recorded generations before English.

Sanskrit

Deepest traced root

15th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (749)

Indic

branch · 1.5% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, ORANGE · 11 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Malay.

Every Sanskrit 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.

ORANGIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its 7 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
5
First board
158
Latest board
67
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

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

ORANGIEST starts with O and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEGINORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start ORANGI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ORANGIEST?

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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.

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