DEVELOP

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French développer, from Middle French desveloper, from Old French desveloper, from des- + voloper, veloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian sviluppare, Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vloppō, *wloppō (“to wrap”) ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrappaną, *wlappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) [1]. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). The word acquired its modern meaning from the 17th-century belief that an egg contains the animal in miniature and matures by growing larger and shedding its envelopes.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

DEVELOP in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 66 players have found it across Outlier's history.

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

DEVELOP starts with D and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read DEELOPV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start DEVELO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Also seen on Day 7