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POSTGRADUATE
Definition of POSTGRADUATE
noun
A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From post- + graduate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POSTGRADUATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POSTGRADUATE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AADEGOPRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and A appear more than once.
Words that start POSTGRAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POSTGRADUATE?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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