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LEVEL
Definition of LEVEL
adjective
The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau. The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LEVEL · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEVEL in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LEVEL starts with L and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EELLV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L and E appear more than once. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.
Words that start LEVEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LEVEL?
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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.
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