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WORT
Definition of WORT
noun
Now chiefly as the second element in the names of plants: a plant used for food or medicine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wort, wurt, wyrte (“any herb or plant; herb or plant used as food or medicine; (specifically) cabbage or vegetable of the genus Brassica; (chiefly plural) dish of cooked vegetables”) [and other forms], from Old English wyrt (“a plant; vegetable; herb, spice”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wurti (“a root; a spice”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts (“a root”), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“a root”). Doublet of root and related to orchard.
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.
WORT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WORT starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ORTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WORT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found WORT?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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