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LIKE
Definition of LIKE
verb
To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), West Frisian lykje (“to seem, appear, look”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic and Faroese líka (“to like”). Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,281)
How it is built
Same root, LIKE · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LIKE in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LIKE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIKL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start LIKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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