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SERVE

/sɜːv/5 letters

Definition of SERVE

verb

To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity. To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by. To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc. To render service by being a servant, worker, employee, or officeholder; to hold those roles and perform their duties. To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English serven, from Old French servir, from Latin serviō (“be a slave; serve”), from Latin servus (“slave; servant”), which perhaps derives from Etruscan (compare Etruscan proper names 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌉 (servi), 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌄 (serve)), or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“watch over, protect”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

SERVE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 6 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
25
First board
121
Latest board
69
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 94, 22 August 2026.

Built from these letters

SERVE
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SERVE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EERSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

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 SERVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SERVEDSERVERSERVESSERVERSSERVERYSERVEWESERVEWEDSERVEWESSERVEABLESERVERIESSERVEWING

Could you have found SERVE?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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