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RIVED

/ɹaɪvd/5 letters

Definition of RIVED

verb

simple past and past participle of rive

RIVE

verb

To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.

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Word DNA

RIVED inherits its ancestry from its root, RIVE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old Norse
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.4%

of traced words share this origin (11,191)

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, RIVE · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Norwegian, Old English, Swedish.

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Rarity score
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

RIVED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 27 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
18
First board
150
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.

Built from these letters

RIVED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RIVED starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIRV - 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.

Could you have found RIVED?

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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.

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