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WOAD
Definition of WOAD
noun
The plant Isatis tinctoria.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.
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.
WOAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 60 boards so far. 341 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WOAD starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WOAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found WOAD?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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