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AVOID
Definition of AVOID
verb
To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English avoiden, from Anglo-Norman avoider, Old French esvuidier (“to empty out”), from es- + vuidier, from Vulgar Latin *vocitāre < Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately related to Latin vacuus. Displaced native Old English forbūgan (literally “to bend away from”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AVOID in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 9, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AVOID starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADIOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start AVOID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AVOID?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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