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KNIVE

/naɪv/5 letters

Definition of KNIVE

verb

Rare form of knife.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Attested since at least 1733. Knife (verb), which is now 150 times more common, is first attested in the 1860s. Related to knife (“short blade”, noun); compare strife (noun), strive (verb).

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.

KNIVE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 5 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
79
First board
109
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First found by a player on Day 79, 7 August 2026.

Built from these letters

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

KNIVE starts with K and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIKNV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start KNIVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found KNIVE?

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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.

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