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TERRIBLES
Definition of TERRIBLES
Wiktionary has no entry for TERRIBLES itself. This is its base word, TERRIBLE.
adjective
Causing terror, alarm or fear; dreadful
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for TERRIBLE.
Inherited from Middle English terrible, from Old French terrible, from Latin terribilis (“frightful”), from terreō (“to frighten, terrify, alarm; to deter by terror, scare (away)”). Compare terror, deter. By surface analysis, terror + -ible. Displaced Old English atol and sliþe, while also largely overtaking grimm.
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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.
TERRIBLES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
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
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TERRIBLES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEEILRRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start TERRIB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TERRIBLES?
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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