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WATERSIDES
Definition of WATERSIDES
noun
plural of waterside
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Word DNA
WATERSIDES inherits its ancestry from its root, WATERSIDE.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (4,883)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WATERSIDE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WATERSIDES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 70 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
WATERSIDES starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEEIRSSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once.
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 WATERS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WATERSIDES?
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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