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DESIRE
Definition of DESIRE
verb
To want; to wish for earnestly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English desir, desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin dēsīderō (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider and desiderate. The verb, along with Old Norse derived want (verb), has mostly replaced native will in modern English.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DESIRE · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DESIRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 99 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 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 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DESIRE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEEIRS - 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 DESIRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found DESIRE?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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