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WAVERED

7 letters

Definition of WAVERED

verb

simple past and past participle of waver

WAVER

verb

To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.

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Word DNA

WAVERED inherits its ancestry from its root, WAVER.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,259)

How it is built

verb

Same root, WAVER · 10 relatives in the game

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

Rarity score
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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.

WAVERED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 75 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 159
Its 44 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
44
Boards found on
19
First board
157
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.

Built from these letters

WAVERED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WAVERED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEERVW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start WAVERE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WAVERED?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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