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WOULD
Definition of WOULD
verb
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
WILL
verb
Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
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Where it comes from
From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will. The loss of /l/ in this word is probably due to weak stress, as in should and could (though in the latter, the /l/ was due to the analogy of the former two).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,890)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WOULD · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WOULD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 220 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WOULD starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DLOUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WOULD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WOULD?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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