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WHITE
Definition of WHITE
adjective
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweydós, a byform of *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,191)
How it is built
Same root, WHITE · 13 relatives in the game
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.
WHITE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WHITE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHITW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 WHITE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WHITE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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