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BECALLED

8 letters

Definition of BECALLED

verb

simple past and past participle of becall

BECALL

verb

To accuse.

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Word DNA

BECALLED inherits its ancestry from its root, BECALL.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,116)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundbe-

Same root, BECALL · 2 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BECALLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
137
First board
30
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.

First ever to find it

sparklespoon

on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

BECALLED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEELL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and L appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BECALL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BECALLED?

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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.

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