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DEVOUT
Definition of DEVOUT
adjective
Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English devout. From Middle English devout, devot, from Old French devot (French dévot), from Latin dēvōtus, perfect passive participle of dēvōveō. Doublet of devote.
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
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEVOUT · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEVOUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 124 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DEVOUT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DEOTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DEVOUT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found DEVOUT?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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