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ADIEU
Definition of ADIEU
interjection
Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English adieu also adew, adewe, adue, from Old French adieu (“to God”), a shortening of a Dieu vous comant (“I commend you to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Doublet of adios.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,726)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ADIEU · 2 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.
ADIEU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 108 boards so far. 244 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 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 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ADIEU starts with A and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read ADEIU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found ADIEU?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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