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GUIDE
Definition of GUIDE
noun
Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
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Where it comes from
c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GUIDE in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GUIDE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEGIU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GUIDE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GUIDE?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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