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WHOMEVER

/humˈɛvɚ/8 letters

Definition of WHOMEVER

pronoun

Whatever person or persons (as object of verb or preposition).

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Where it comes from

From Middle English whomever; equivalent to whom + -ever.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (4,790)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

pronoun2 syllablescompound-ever

Every Middle English 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.

WHOMEVER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 90 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 38 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
8
First board
157
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 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 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

WHOMEVER
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found WHOMEVER?

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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.

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