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DAISY
Definition of DAISY
noun
A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,855)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DAISY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DAISY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DAISY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADISY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DAISY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found DAISY?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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