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DESPERADO
Definition of DESPERADO
noun
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.5%
of traced words share this origin (8,673)
branch · 32.5% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DESPERADO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DESPERADO starts with D and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ADDEEOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.
Words that start DESPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DESPERADO?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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