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RIDES
Definition of RIDES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of ride
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Word DNA
RIDES inherits its ancestry from its root, RIDE.
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.
RIDES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RIDES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEIRS - 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.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found RIDES?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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