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EQUID
Definition of EQUID
noun
Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
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Other senses
EQUID carries 3 further meanings.
noun
Any of various mammals of the family Equidae, having a single hoofed digit on each foot, and including the horses, asses, and zebras.
noun
A hoofed mammal of the family Equidæ.
noun
hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck
Where it comes from
An appellativization from Equid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin equ(us) (“horse”) + -id.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step 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, EQUID · 1 relative in the game
EQUID in a sentence
“Years ago, the famous professor George Simpson wrote, “The most famous of all equid horse trends, ‘gradual reduction of the side toes,’ is flatly fictitious.””
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EQUID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 81 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
EQUID starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIQU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EQUID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found EQUID?
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