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PAID
Definition of PAID
verb
simple past and past participle of pay
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pay + -ed.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PAID in OUTLIER
It has fitted 91 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PAID starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADIP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PAID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found PAID?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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