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WIGHTED
Definition of WIGHTED
Wiktionary has no entry for WIGHTED itself. This is its base word, WIGHT.
noun
A living creature, especially a human being.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for WIGHT.
From Middle English wight, wiȝt, from Old English wiht (“thing, creature”), from Proto-West Germanic *wihti, from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“thing, creature”, literally “being”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ- (“to say, tell”). Cognate with Scots wicht (“creature, being, human”), Dutch wicht (“child, baby, girl”), German Low German Wicht (“girl; wight”), German Wicht (“wretch, wight, little creature, scoundrel”), Danish vætte (“underground creature, gnome”), Norwegian Bokmål vette (“underground creature, gnome”), Swedish vätte (“underground creature, gnome”), Icelandic vættur (“imp, elf”). Doublet of whit.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.8%
of traced words share this origin (2,661)
How it is built
Same root, WIGHT · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WIGHTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WIGHTED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEGHITW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found WIGHTED?
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