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CHIDE
Definition of CHIDE
verb
To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German kīdal (“wedge”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHIDE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEHI - 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 CHIDE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found CHIDE?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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