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SKIVED
Definition of SKIVED
verb
simple past and past participle of skive
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Another sense
SKIVED carries a second meaning.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of skive.
Word DNA
SKIVED inherits its ancestry from its root, SKIVE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (969)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SKIVE · 2 relatives in the game
SKIVED in a sentence
“She skived off quite often, yet still managed to stay in the top stream for everything and, as she puts it, "got plenty of GCSEs, but left as soon as I could".”
Lauren Laverne: 'Let's face it, TV's not brain surgery', 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SKIVED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 131 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SKIVED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIKSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found SKIVED?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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