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BEFOULED
Definition of BEFOULED
verb
simple past and past participle of befoul
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Other senses
BEFOULED carries 3 further meanings.
adjective
made disgustingly dirty.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of befoul.
adjective
made dirty or foul
“breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot”
Word DNA
BEFOULED inherits its ancestry from its root, BEFOUL.
How it is built
Same root, BEFOUL · 4 relatives in the game
BEFOULED in a sentence
“One of the notes stuck into abandoned dog mess by the mysterious Pooperman, current scourge of Lincoln's befouled streets.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BEFOULED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 149 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BEFOULED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEEFLOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start BEFOUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found BEFOULED?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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