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KISS
Definition of KISS
verb
To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-West Germanic *kussijan, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian küsje, Dutch kussen, German Low German küssen, German küssen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål kysse, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kyssa. Compare Proto-Indo-European *ku-, *kus- (probably imitative), with descendants including Ancient Greek κύσσω (kússō), poetic form of κύσω (kúsō, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (4,080)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, KISS · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Proto-Indo-European, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
KISS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 140, 7 October 2026.
Built from these letters
KISS starts with K and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read IKSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
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 KISS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found KISS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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