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READY
Definition of READY
interjection
The command to make ready, regardless of language of competitors, used in multiple sports to get contestants to their marks in preparation to start.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration (+ -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.8%
of traced words share this origin (2,661)
How it is built
Same root, READY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
READY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 63 days.
First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.
Built from these letters
READY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADERY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start READY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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