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BUILD
Definition of BUILD
verb
To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle. False cognate of German bilden.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,614)
How it is built
Same root, BUILD · 4 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BUILD in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 105 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 69 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BUILD starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDILU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 BUILD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUILD?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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