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SURER

5 letters

Definition of SURER

adjective

comparative form of sure: more sure

SURE

adjective

Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.

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Word DNA

SURER inherits its ancestry from its root, SURE.

Line of descent

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

5 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,855)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompoundor-

Same root, SURE · 4 relatives in the game

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SURER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its one board, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
139
First board
17
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

ladylesleigh

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SURER
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SURER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ERRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears 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 SURER?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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