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BACKWARD
Definition of BACKWARD
adjective
Indicating position or direction. Situated toward or at the rear of something.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bakwarde, abakward, equivalent to back (adverb) + -ward. Cognate with Old Frisian bekward (“backward”).
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.
BACKWARD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 122, 19 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 122, 19 September 2026.
Built from these letters
BACKWARD starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AABCDKRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BACKWA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BACKWARD?
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 122 - and most players walked straight past it.
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