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YULETIDE
Definition of YULETIDE
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Yule (“Germanic Winter Festival”) + -tide (“period around a festival, season”); compare Swedish juletid.
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.
YULETIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 104 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
YULETIDE starts with Y and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEEILTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found YULETIDE?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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