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BETIDE
Definition of BETIDE
verb
Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bityden [and other forms]; from bi- (prefix forming verbs, usually with a completive, figurative, or intensive sense) + tyden (“to come about, happen, occur; to befall, become of, happen to (someone); to be the fate of (someone); to await (someone); to fare, get along”); tyden is derived from Old English tīdan (“to befall, betide, happen”), related to tīd (“time; season; hour”) (both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- (“to divide, share”) or its extended form *deh₂-y-, whence *dh₂ítis (“time”)) + -an (suffix forming the infinitive of most verbs). The English word is analysable as be- + tide (“(obsolete) to happen, occur”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BETIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BETIDE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BDEEIT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found BETIDE?
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