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WADI
Definition of WADI
noun
A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic وَادِي, وَادٍ (wādī, wādin, “valley, riverbed, ravine”).
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.
WADI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 107 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WADI starts with W and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read ADIW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WADI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found WADI?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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