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DOSE
Definition of DOSE
noun
A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Mostly displaced English drench. Doublet of doos.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,655)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DOSE · 5 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.
DOSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 45, 4 July 2026.
Built from these letters
DOSE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DOSE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 45
Could you have found DOSE?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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