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"weird" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often outre (5 letters).
Definitions
strikingly odd or unusual
Word origin
From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”); more at worth (verb).
Used in a sentence
“There are lots of weird people in this place.”
“It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.”
“It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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