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TEST
Definition of TEST
noun
A challenge, trial. An examination, given often during the academic term. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc. A standardised measure, consisting of one or more items.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense: the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge. Displaced Old English afandung.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TEST · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TEST in OUTLIER
It has fitted 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
TEST starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ESTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
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 TEST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TEST?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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