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QUADRATS

8 letters

Definition of QUADRATS

noun

plural of quadrat

QUADRAT

noun

An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc.

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Word DNA

QUADRATS inherits its ancestry from its root, QUADRAT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,711)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, QUADRAT · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin 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.

QUADRATS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 148
Its 4 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
45
First board
126
Latest board
41
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.

First ever to find it

roswell

on Day 45, 4 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

QUADRATS starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADQRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start QUADRA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found QUADRATS?

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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.

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