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SOLID
Definition of SOLID
adjective
That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide, from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, sou, and xu.
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Word DNA
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 (2,585)
How it is built
Same root, SOLID · 1 relative in the game
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.
SOLID in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SOLID starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DILOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SOLID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SOLID?
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