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WEEKDAY
Definition of WEEKDAY
noun
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”).
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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.
WEEKDAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WEEKDAY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADEEKWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found WEEKDAY?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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