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ANYTHING
Definition of ANYTHING
pronoun
Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,197)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANYTHING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
ANYTHING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGHINNTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start ANYTHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANYTHING?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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