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SPREAD
Definition of SPREAD
verb
To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Danish sprede (“to spread”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”). Doublet of spurn.
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.
SPREAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 70, 29 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SPREAD starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEPRS - 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 SPREAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPREAD?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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