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PASTE
Definition of PASTE
noun
A soft moist mixture, in particular: One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. Pastry. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,608)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PASTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PASTE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PASTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PASTE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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