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SIDES
About SIDES
SIDES is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
SIDES inherits its ancestry from its root, SIDE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,589)
Same root, SIDE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SIDES in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.
Built from these letters
SIDES starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEISS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start SIDES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SIDES?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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