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WARDEN
Definition of WARDEN
noun
A guard or watchman.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wardein, from Anglo-Norman wardein, from warder (“to guard”), variant of Old French guarder (“to guard”) (whence modern French garder, also English guard), from Proto-Germanic *wardāną; related to Old High German wartēn (“to watch”). Compare guardian, French gardien, from Old French guardian, guardein. Compare also ward and reward. Doublet of guardian.
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.
WARDEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WARDEN starts with W and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADENRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 WARDEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found WARDEN?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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