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WEAVER
Definition of WEAVER
noun
A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wevere, wever, from Old English *wefere, *wifre, *wæfre (“weaver”, in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *webārī. By surface analysis, weave + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Weeuwer (“weaver”), Dutch wever (“weaver”), German Low German Wever (“weaver”), German Weber (“weaver”), Swedish vävare (“weaver”), Icelandic vefari (“weaver”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,881)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WEAVER · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WEAVER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 141 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 174, 10 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WEAVER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEERVW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start WEAVER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found WEAVER?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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