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TRAIT
Definition of TRAIT
noun
An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō. Doublet of tract.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRAIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRAIT starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AIRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start TRAIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRAIT?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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