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PARTIALS

8 letters

Definition of PARTIALS

noun

plural of partial

PARTIAL

adjective

Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.

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Word DNA

PARTIALS inherits its ancestry from its root, PARTIAL.

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

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,912)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, PARTIAL · 1 relative 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.

PARTIALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 9 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
60
First board
128
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 60, 19 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.

First found by a player on Day 60, 19 July 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

PARTIALS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PARTIALS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAILPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start PARTIA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PARTIALPARTIALLYPARTIALINGPARTIALISEPARTIALISMPARTIALISTPARTIALITYPARTIALIZEPARTIALLEDPARTIALISEDPARTIALISESPARTIALISMS

Could you have found PARTIALS?

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 60 - and most players walked straight past it.

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