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WYRM
Definition of WYRM
noun
A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature. A sea serpent.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WYRM carries 2 further meanings.
noun
dragon, particularly one without legs or wings
noun
snake, particularly a large one
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Old English wyrm. Doublet of worm, which was inherited.
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 (2,853)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WYRM · 1 relative 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.
WYRM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 59 boards so far. 203 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WYRM starts with W and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read MRWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found WYRM?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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