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BEWORK
Definition of BEWORK
verb
To work around or about; surround.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bewurchen, from Old English bewyrċean, bewyrċan (“to work, construct, surround with, enclose, cover, work in, insert, adorn”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *wirkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to be- + work. Cognate with North Frisian bewerke (“to bework, edit”), Dutch bewerken (“to work, manipulate”), German bewirken (“to bring about, effect”), Danish bevirke (“to cause”). More at be-, work.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,952)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BEWORK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BEWORK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read BEKORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BEWORK?
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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.
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