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WORLD
Definition of WORLD
noun
The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English world, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”). Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), North Frisian Wārel, wäält, wråål (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Bavarian Wöd (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), German, Luxembourgish Welt (“world”), German Low German Wereld, Werld (“world”), Vilamovian wełt (“world”), Yiddish וועלט (velt, “world”), Danish verden (“world”), Elfdalian wärd (“world”), Faroese verð, verøld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”), Norn vrildan (“the earth”), Norwegian Bokmål verd, verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,514)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WORLD · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WORLD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 66 boards so far. 168 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 177, 13 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WORLD starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DLORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WORLD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found WORLD?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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