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BEGUILED

8 letters

Definition of BEGUILED

verb

simple past and past participle of beguile

BEGUILE

verb

To deceive or delude (using guile).

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Word DNA

BEGUILED inherits its ancestry from its root, BEGUILE.

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

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (4,799)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundbe-

Same root, BEGUILE · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Middle Dutch.

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

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.

BEGUILED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 66 boards so far. 349 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 66 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
66
Boards found on
13
First board
158
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BEGUILED
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BEGUILED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEEGILU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start BEGUIL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BEGUILED?

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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.

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