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SHIVE
Definition of SHIVE
noun
A slice, especially of bread.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A parallel form of sheave, from Middle English schyve, from Proto-West Germanic *skībā, from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, presumably through an Old English *sċīfe (though it is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slice of bread”) (whence Danish skive (“disc, slice”)), Dutch schijf (“disc, slice”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,984)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SHIVE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 130 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SHIVE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHISV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHIVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found SHIVE?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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