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DEAVE
About DEAVE
DEAVE is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEAVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DEAVE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEEV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 DEAVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DEAVE?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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