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ABSORBED

/æbˈsɔɹbd/8 letters

Definition of ABSORBED

adjective

Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From absorb + -ed.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

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Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its one board, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
110
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

newung

on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ABSORBED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ABSORBED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABBDEORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once.

Words that start ABSORB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ABSORBABSORBSABSORBERABSORBANTABSORBATEABSORBENTABSORBERSABSORBINGABSORBABLEABSORBANCEABSORBANCYABSORBANTS

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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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.

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