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WEREGILDS

9 letters

Definition of WEREGILDS

noun

plural of weregild

WERGELD · via weregild

noun

Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide; such a reparative payment or compensation.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, WEREGILD · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

WEREGILDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 17 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
41
First board
149
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

amtelope

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WEREGILDS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WEREGI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WEREGILDS?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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