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BEDECK
Definition of BEDECK
verb
To deck, ornament, or adorn
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
BEDECK carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To adorn or ornament in a showy fashion.
To deck out; adorn; grace: as, “bedecking ornaments,” ; “bedecked, ornate, and gay,”
A simplified spelling of bedecked.
transitive verb
To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
Where it comes from
From be- + deck. Compare West Frisian bedekke (“to cover”), Dutch bedekken (“to cover, coat, overlay”), German bedecken (“to cover, top, overlay”), Swedish betäcka (“to cover, shelter”). Doublet of bethatch.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BEDECK · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German, Swedish.
BEDECK in a sentence
“Just as she had refused to "bedeck" herself for social occasions as a girl, so her choreography insisted that the audience see plainly what is there instead of buying into some comfy illusion.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BEDECK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 109 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BEDECK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read BCDEEK - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of BEDECK. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
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 BEDECK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found BEDECK?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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