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DISPLAY
Definition of DISPLAY
noun
A show or spectacle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DISPLAY · 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.
DISPLAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DISPLAY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADILPSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DISPLA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found DISPLAY?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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