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GUIDER

6 letters

Definition of GUIDER

noun

One who guides.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English gider, gyder, equivalent to guide + -er. Compare Old French guidëor.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (5,012)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Same root, GUID · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old French.

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

GUIDER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 165
Its 13 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
33
First board
161
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.

Built from these letters

GUIDER
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GUIDER starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DEGIRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start GUIDER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GUIDERSGUIDERAIL

Could you have found GUIDER?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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