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DIRT
Definition of DIRT
noun
Soil or earth.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”). (Can this etymology be sourced?) The word originally referred to excrement before shifting to the current sense of "soil". For a semantic parallel, see Norwegian skitt (“dirt, filth, grime, mud”), from Old Norse skítr (“shit”), which is cognate with English shit.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DIRT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DIRT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DIRT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found DIRT?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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