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AVULSED

7 letters

Definition of AVULSED

verb

simple past and past participle of avulse

AVULSE

verb

To tear off forcibly.

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Word DNA

AVULSED inherits its ancestry from its root, AVULSE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,888)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundab-

Same root, AVULSE · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

AVULSED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 29 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
29
Boards found on
22
First board
150
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

alisande

on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AVULSED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

AVULSED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADELSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start AVULSE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

AVULSEAVULSES

Could you have found AVULSED?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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