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ADIEU

/əˈdju/5 letters

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).

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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 77 boards so far. 195 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 112
Its 77 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
77
Boards found on
5
First board
112
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

ADIEU
5
Letters
4
Vowels
1
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

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.

Words that start ADIEU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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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