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WEAVE

/wiːv/5 letters

Definition of WEAVE

verb

To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”). Cognate with North Frisian weev, weew, weewe (“to weave”), Saterland Frisian weeuwe (“to weave”), Dutch weven (“to weave”), German weben (“to weave”), Luxembourgish wiewen (“to weave”), Yiddish וועבן (vebn, “to weave”), Danish væve (“to weave”), Faroese veva (“to weave”), Icelandic vefa (“to weave”), Norwegian Bokmål veve (“to weave”), Norwegian Nynorsk veva, veve (“to weave”), Swedish väva (“to weave”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

WEAVE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 57 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 23 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
25
First board
108
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

WEAVE
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WEAVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WEAVEDWEAVERWEAVESWEAVERSWEAVERBIRDWEAVERBIRDS

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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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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