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WITHSTANDER

11 letters

Definition of WITHSTANDER

noun

A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English withstonder, equivalent to withstand + -er.

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

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,246)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Same root, WITHSTAND · 2 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

WITHSTANDER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
148
First board
23
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First found by a player on Day 148, 15 October 2026.

Built from these letters

WITHSTANDER
11
Letters
3
Vowels
8
Consonants
10
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WITHSTA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WITHSTANDWITHSTANDSWITHSTANDING

Could you have found WITHSTANDER?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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