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WORST
Definition of WORST
adjective
superlative form of bad: most bad Most inferior; doing the least good.
BAD
symbol
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Banda languages.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English worste, wurste, warste, werste, wirste, from Old English wierrest, from Proto-Germanic *wirsistaz, superlative form of *ubilaz (“bad, evil”); compare worse. Cognate with Old Saxon wirsista, wirrista (“worst”), Old High German wirst, wirsesto, wirsisto (“worst”), Danish værst (“worst”), Swedish värst (“worst”), Icelandic verstur (“worst”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,691)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WORST · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WORST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WORST starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ORSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WORST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found WORST?
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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