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BEAD
Definition of BEAD
noun
Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gebäd (“prayer”), Cimbrian gapéet (“prayer”), Dutch gebed and bede (“prayer”), German Gebet (“prayer”), Low German Gebett (“prayer”), Luxembourgish Gebiet (“prayer”), Vilamovian gybāt (“prayer”).
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.
BEAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
BEAD starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDE - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BEAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found BEAD?
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