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BELLOWED

/ˈbɛləʊd/8 letters

Definition of BELLOWED

verb

simple past and past participle of bellow

BELLOW

noun

The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.

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Word DNA

BELLOWED inherits its ancestry from its root, BELLOW.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

9%

of traced words share this origin (2,585)

How it is built

verb2 syllables

Same root, BELLOW · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names German, Russian, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

BELLOWED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 143
Its one board, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
137
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

overend

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

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

BOWELLED

Words that start BELLOW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BELLOWED?

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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