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AWAITED

/əˈweɪtɪd/7 letters

Definition of AWAITED

verb

simple past and past participle of await

AWAIT

verb

To wait for.

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Word DNA

AWAITED inherits its ancestry from its root, AWAIT.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,388)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb3 syllablescompound

Same root, AWAIT · 5 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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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.

AWAITED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 16 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
49
First board
165
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

wordgirl25

on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AWAITED
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start AWAITE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AWAITED?

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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.

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