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QUIET
Definition of QUIET
adjective
With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, quite, and quietus. Largely displaced native English still in the sense of "with little or no sound".
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 (11,769)
How it is built
Same root, QUIET · 10 relatives in the game
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.
QUIET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 110 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
QUIET starts with Q and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EIQTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
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 QUIET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found QUIET?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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