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ABOVES
Definition of ABOVES
Wiktionary has no entry for ABOVES itself. This is its base word, ABOVE.
preposition
Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for ABOVE.
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 · 22.3% 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.
ABOVES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ABOVES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEOSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found ABOVES?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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