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WEEKDAYS
Definition of WEEKDAYS
noun
plural 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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Word DNA
WEEKDAYS inherits its ancestry from its root, WEEKDAY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,821)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WEEKDAY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, 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.
WEEKDAYS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WEEKDAYS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEEKSWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found WEEKDAYS?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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