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EDIFY

/ˈɛdɪfaɪ/5 letters

Definition of EDIFY

verb

To build, construct.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Old French edifier (“to build, to edify”), from Latin aedificare (“build”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

EDIFY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 98 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 46 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
46
Boards found on
16
First board
102
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

katertot

on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EDIFY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

EDIFY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEFIY - 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 EDIFY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EDIFYINGEDIFYINGLY

Could you have found EDIFY?

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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.

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