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WHID
Definition of WHID
noun
A quick motion; a rapid, quiet movement, usually by small game.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English *whid, from Old English hwiþa, hweoþu (“air, breeze”) or from Old Norse hviða (“gust of wind”), both from Proto-Germanic *hwiþō (“rush of wind”), from Proto-Germanic *hwi- (“to rush”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwei- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Scots quhid (“a squall, blast of wind”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,223)
How it is built
Same root, WHID · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Scots.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WHID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WHID starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DHIW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WHID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found WHID?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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