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WRAITH
Definition of WRAITH
noun
A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 in a translation of the Aeneid. The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it a doublet of wrath and wroth. The old Century Dictionary compares Old Norse vǫrðr (“guardian”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (819)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WRAITH · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WRAITH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 100 boards so far. 571 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WRAITH starts with W and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AHIRTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WRAITH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found WRAITH?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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