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QUALITIES
Definition of QUALITIES
noun
plural of quality
noun
The kind, condition, and/or the set of characteristics of something, as opposed to the quantity of something.
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Word DNA
QUALITIES inherits its ancestry from its root, QUALITY.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,145)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUALITY · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUALITIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 116 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
QUALITIES starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIILQSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUALIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found QUALITIES?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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