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QUARTILES
Definition of QUARTILES
noun
plural of quartile
noun
Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
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Another sense
QUARTILES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of quartile.
Word DNA
QUARTILES inherits its ancestry from its root, QUARTILE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUARTILE · 1 relative 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.
QUARTILES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 81 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
QUARTILES starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEILQRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start QUARTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found QUARTILES?
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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