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SHORTER
About SHORTER
SHORTER is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
SHORTER inherits its ancestry from its root, SHORT.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,656)
Same root, SHORT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, French, Latin, Old Norse, Proto-Slavic, Scots.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHORTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 151 days.
Built from these letters
SHORTER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EHORRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHORTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found SHORTER?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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