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TERNARY

/ˈtɜː.nə.ɹi/7 letters

Definition of TERNARY

adjective

Made up of three things.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Late Latin ternārius (“consisting of three things”), from ternī (“three each”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TERNARY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 125
Its one board, across 125 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
124
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

scottword

on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TERNARY
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TERNARY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AENRRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start TERNAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.

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