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WINTERTIDE
Definition of WINTERTIDE
noun
wintertime
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wintertid, wyntertyde, from Old English winter + tid (“time”). By surface analysis, winter + -tide. Cognate to Dutch wintertijd (“winter time”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WINTERTIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
Built from these letters
WINTERTIDE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEEIINRTTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I, T and E appear more than once.
Words that start WINTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WINTERTIDE?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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