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LADE

/leɪd/4 letters

Definition of LADE

verb

To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).

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Where it comes from

From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

LADE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 9 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
32
First board
94
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

LADE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start LADE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

LADEDLADENLADERLADESLADENSLADERSLADENEDLADETTELADENINGLADETTES

Could you have found LADE?

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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.

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