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SLED
Definition of SLED
noun
A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (990)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SLED · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Norwegian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
SLED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DELS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SLED
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found SLED?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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