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DEAD
Definition of DEAD
adjective
No longer living; deceased.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (970)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEAD · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEAD in OUTLIER
It has fitted 3 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
DEAD starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADDE - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.
Words that start DEAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DEAD?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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