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BELOVES

7 letters

Definition of BELOVES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of belove

BELIVE · via belove

verb

To remain, stay.

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Word DNA

BELOVES inherits its ancestry from its root, BELOVE.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,961)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, BELOVE · 4 relatives in the game

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BELOVES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its 5 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
88
First board
157
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

joy

on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BELOVES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BELOVES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEELOSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start BELOVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BELOVES?

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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.

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