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SPECIALER

9 letters

Definition of SPECIALER

adjective

comparative form of special: more special

SPECIAL

adjective

Distinguished by a unique, particular, or unusual quality.

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Word DNA

SPECIALER inherits its ancestry from its root, SPECIAL.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,908)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, SPECIAL · 3 relatives in the game

Every Old English 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.

SPECIALER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its 5 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
53
First board
128
Latest board
44
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 53, 12 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.

First ever to find it

dragonmorphPATRON

on Day 53, 12 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SPECIALER
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SPECIALER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEEILPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SPECIA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SPECIALSPECIALSSPECIATESPECIALLYSPECIALTYSPECIATEDSPECIATESSPECIALESTSPECIALISESPECIALISMSPECIALISTSPECIALITY

Could you have found SPECIALER?

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 53 - and most players walked straight past it.

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