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WIST
Definition of WIST
verb
simple past and past participle of wit.
WIT
symbol
Former ISO 639-3 language code for Wintu.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Past indicative of wit: from Old English witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate with Dutch weten, German wissen, Swedish veta, and Latin videō (“to see”). Compare guide.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,506)
How it is built
Same root, WIST · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Latin, Swedish.
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.
WIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 67 boards so far. 157 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WIST starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ISTW - 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 WIST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found WIST?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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