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WAITE

5 letters

Definition of WAITE

verb

Archaic spelling of wait.

WAIT

verb

To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.

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Word DNA

WAITE inherits its ancestry from its root, WAIT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Frankish
  4. Anglo-Norman
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,595)

How it is built

verb

Same root, WAIT · 16 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Old English, Old French, Old Norse.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

WAITE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 8 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
55
First board
138
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.

First ever to find it

pierogituxedo

on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

WAITE
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WAITE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEITW - 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 WAITE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WAITE?

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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.

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