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RIDE
Definition of RIDE
verb
To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną (“to ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ- (“to ride”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”). From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride, ridj, rir (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Dutch rijden, ryden (“to ride; to drive”), German reiten, reuten (“to ride”), German Low German rieden (“to ride; to drive”), Limburgish rieje (“to ride; to drive”), Luxembourgish reiden (“to ride”), Vilamovian raeita, rajta (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Faroese and Icelandic ríða (“to ride”), Norwegian Bokmål ri, ride (“to ride”), Norwegian Nynorsk ri, rida, ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”). From Indo-European: Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin irrītō (“to excite, incite, stimulate; to exasperate”), Ancient Greek ὀρῑ́νω (orī́nō, “to move, stir”), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Russian ре́ять (réjatʹ, “to fly, hover, soar”), Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to get up; to rise up”), Northern Kurdish rîtin (“to shit”), Persian ریدن (ridan, “to shit; to fuck up, to screw up”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Hittite 𒅈𒉡𒊻𒍣 (ar-nu-uz-zi, “to address, send”), Sanskrit रीति (rīti, “course, motion; current, stream; line, row”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Sanskrit
- Persian
- Russian
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Welsh
- Scottish Gaelic
- Irish
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Icelandic
- Danish
- Dutch
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
17 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (749)
branch · 1.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RIDE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RIDE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEIR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RIDE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found RIDE?
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