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SIDEWARDS
Definition of SIDEWARDS
adjective
Toward a side.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From side + -wards. Compare Middle English syduardys (“sideways, obliquely”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SIDE · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SIDEWARDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SIDEWARDS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADDEIRSSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and D appear more than once.
Words that start SIDEWA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SIDEWARDS?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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