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WIVED
Definition of WIVED
verb
simple past and past participle of wive
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Another sense
WIVED carries a second meaning.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of wive.
Word DNA
WIVED inherits its ancestry from its root, WIVE.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,977)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WIVE · 2 relatives in the game
WIVED in a sentence
“Ultimately, the recklessness and cover-up mid-wived by the "fog of war" (everything from the friendly fire that killed Pat Tillman to the torture at Abu Ghraib and other atrocities) just magnify the "squaring the error" effect.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WIVED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 94 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WIVED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIVW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found WIVED?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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