The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
STARTERS
Definition of STARTERS
noun
plural of starter
noun
Someone who starts, or who starts something. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag. A starting pitcher. A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
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Word DNA
STARTERS inherits its ancestry from its root, START.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (4,883)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, START · 3 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.
STARTERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 71 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STARTERS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AERRSSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S, T and R appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found STARTERS?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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