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BIND
Definition of BIND
verb
To tie; to confine by any ligature.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”). See also West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, binden, German binden, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk binde, Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish binda; also Welsh ben (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bind (“to convince, to awe, to spell”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian بستن (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit बन्धति (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,343)
How it is built
Same root, BIND · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Persian, Sanskrit and 2 more.
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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.
BIND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BIND starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BIND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found BIND?
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