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TERMS
About TERMS
TERMS is a valid 5-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
TERMS inherits its ancestry from its root, TERM.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,585)
Same root, TERM · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
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.
TERMS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 13 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
Built from these letters
TERMS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EMRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found TERMS?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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