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ADDORSED

8 letters

Definition of ADDORSED

adjective

Set back to back, facing away from each other.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin ad dorsum (“to the back”). Compare French adossé.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

32.5%

of traced words share this origin (8,673)

Italic

branch · 32.5% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Its etymology also names French.

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

ADDORSED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 136
Its one board, across 136 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

kkgnoise

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ADDORSED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ADDORSED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADDDEORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found ADDORSED?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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