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DEPLOY
Definition of DEPLOY
verb
To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”). Compare Middle English desployen, dysployen (“to unfold, display”). Doublet of display.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEPLOY · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEPLOY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DEPLOY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DELOPY - 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 DEPLOY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found DEPLOY?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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