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SKID
Definition of SKID
noun
An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English *skid, from Old Norse skíð (“a billet of wood, a beam or plank on which something rests”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, clapboard”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey-t-, *skey- (“to split, divide, separate”). Cognate with English shide, from Middle English schyd, schyde, schide (“plank, beam”), German Scheit (“piece of wood, log”). Doublet of ski.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SKID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SKID starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DIKS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SKID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SKID?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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