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ALLIED
Definition of ALLIED
verb
simple past and past participle of ally
verb
To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty. Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature. To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
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Word DNA
ALLIED inherits its ancestry from its root, ALLY.
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,866)
How it is built
Same root, ALLY · 2 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ALLIED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALLIED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEILL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ALLIED?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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