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PLEADERS

8 letters

Definition of PLEADERS

noun

plural of pleader

PLEADER

noun

a person who pleads in court; an advocate

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Word DNA

PLEADERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PLEADER.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Anglo-Norman
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (854)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-er

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.

PLEADERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far.

Day 1Day 152
Its 9 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
39
First board
152
Latest board
43
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

ember

on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start PLEADE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PLEADERS?

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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.

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