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ABOVE
Definition of ABOVE
preposition
Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English above, aboven, abuven, from Old English ābufan, onbufan, from on (“on”) + bufan (“over”), (akin to Icelandic ofan (“from above”), Middle Dutch bōven, Old Frisian bova, Middle High German bobene) from bī (“by”) + ufan (“over”); also cognate with Danish oven, Dutch boven, German oben, Swedish ovan, Old Saxon oƀan, Old High German obana. The preposition, the adjective, and the noun derive from the adverb.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
7 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
24th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (112)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ABOVE · 1 relative 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.
ABOVE in OUTLIER
It has fitted 43 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 46, 5 July 2026.
Built from these letters
ABOVE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ABOVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ABOVE?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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