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DITHER
Definition of DITHER
verb
To tremble, shake, or shiver.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Variant of didder, from Middle English dideren (“to tremble”). Compare Middle English bididren, bididdren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to deceive, trick”). Alternatively, perhaps with expressive voicing from *titeren, from Proto-Germanic *titrōną. If so, then a doublet of teeter and cognate with Old High German zittarōn (German zittern) and Old Norse titra (Faroese titra, Icelandic titra). Alternatively an unrelated reduplicative onomatopoeia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,287)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DITH · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Old English, Old Norse, Proto-Germanic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DITHER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 57 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DITHER starts with D and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DEHIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DITHER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found DITHER?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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