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WEIRDER

7 letters

Definition of WEIRDER

adjective

comparative form of weird: more weird

WEIRD

adjective

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

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Word DNA

WEIRDER inherits its ancestry from its root, WEIRD.

Line of descent

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

4 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 (11,293)

How it is built

adjective

Same root, WEIRD · 12 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Icelandic, Scots.

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

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
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.

WEIRDER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 3 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
90
First board
154
Latest board
61
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

WEIRDER
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WEIRDER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DEEIRRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and R appear more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start WEIRDE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WEIRDER?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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