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WROOT

5 letters

Definition of WROOT

verb

Obsolete spelling of root (“to dig or burrow with the snout”)

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Where it comes from

From Middle English wroten, from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig, burrow, stir up”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to tear, rip, shred”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

WROOT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 7 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
34
First board
100
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

kymoh

on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

WROOT
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WROOT starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read OORTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start WROOT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WROOTSWROOTEDWROOTING

Could you have found WROOT?

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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.

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