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DIVOT
Definition of DIVOT
noun
A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Scottish Gaelic
- Scots
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
38th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (49)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DIVOT · 2 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.
DIVOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 199 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DIVOT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DIOTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found DIVOT?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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