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DISH

/dɪʃ/4 letters

Definition of DISH

noun

A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dăská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos. Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”). Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such a vessel, then also specific type of food): Bulgarian блю́до (bljúdo), Russian блю́до (bljúdo). For the roundness aspect, compare Polish rondel (“pan, saucepan”) (< Latin rotundus (whence also English round)), Slovene krožnik < krog. Also compare typologically Proto-Slavic *misъka << Latin mēnsa; Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax) (several meanings).

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DISH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 122
Its 8 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
24
First board
121
Latest board
40
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

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Built from these letters

DISH
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DISH starts with D and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read DHIS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start DISH

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