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YEDE

4 letters

Definition of YEDE

verb

simple past of go, now replaced by went.

GO

verb

To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

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Where it comes from

From Middle English yede, from Old English ēode.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,038)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, YEDE · 4 relatives in the game

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

YEDE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 11 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
70
First board
166
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

xecty

on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

YEDE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

YEDE starts with Y and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEEY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

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 YEDE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found YEDE?

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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.

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