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STAD
Definition of STAD
noun
town, village
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Afrikaans and Dutch stad (“city, town”), from Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stad, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, position”). Doublet of stead.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,132)
How it is built
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.
STAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STAD starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADST - 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 STAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STAD?
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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.
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