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WHEATIEST

9 letters

Definition of WHEATIEST

adjective

superlative form of wheaty: most wheaty

WHEATY

adjective

Resembling, or tasting of, wheat.

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Word DNA

WHEATIEST inherits its ancestry from its root, WHEAT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,940)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, WHEAT · 6 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic 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.

WHEATIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its 2 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
152
First board
167
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

dayton

on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WHEATIEST
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WHEATI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WHEATIEST?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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