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TREATISES

9 letters

Definition of TREATISES

noun

plural of treatise

TREATISE

noun

A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

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Word DNA

TREATISES inherits its ancestry from its root, TREATISE.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Anglo-Norman
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (834)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, TREATISE · 1 relative in the game

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

TREATISES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its one board, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
55
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 55 days.

First ever to find it

stanthemanchan

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TREATISES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TREATISES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEIRSSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T, E and S appear more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

REASTIESTSESTERTIA

Words that start TREATI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TREATISES?

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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