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TRIERS

6 letters

Definition of TRIERS

noun

plural of trier

TRIER

noun

One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test or standard.

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Word DNA

TRIERS inherits its ancestry from its root, TRIER.

Line of descent

  1. Anglo-Norman
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Anglo-Norman

Deepest traced root

26th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (281)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Same root, TRIER · 1 relative in the game

Every Anglo-Norman 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.

TRIERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
141
First board
26
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.

First found by a player on Day 141, 8 October 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

STIRRE

Could you have found TRIERS?

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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