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WORSE

/wɜːs/5 letters

Definition of WORSE

adjective

comparative form of bad: more bad

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

WORSE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 6 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
24
First board
101
Latest board
59
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

WORSE
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WORSE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EORSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start WORSE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WORSEDWORSENWORSERWORSESWORSETWORSENSWORSETSWORSENEDWORSENESSWORSENINGWORSENESSES

Could you have found WORSE?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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