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TERRIFIERS

10 letters

Definition of TERRIFIERS

noun

plural of terrifier

TERRIFIER

noun

One who, or that which, terrifies.

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Word DNA

TERRIFIERS inherits its ancestry from its root, TERRIFY.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,817)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, TERRIFY · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

TERRIFIERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its one board, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
141
First board
21
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

amanuensis

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TERRIFIERS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TERRIFIERS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEFIIRRRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, R and I appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start TERRIF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TERRIFYTERRIFICTERRIFIEDTERRIFIERTERRIFIESTERRIFICALTERRIFYINGTERRIFICALLYTERRIFYINGLY

Could you have found TERRIFIERS?

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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.

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