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BESTILLED

9 letters

Definition of BESTILLED

verb

simple past and past participle of bestill

BESTILL

verb

To make quiet or still; calm; pacify.

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Word DNA

BESTILLED inherits its ancestry from its root, BESTILL.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.1%

of traced words share this origin (1,238)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundbe-

Same root, BESTILL · 2 relatives in the game

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

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

BESTILLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 153
Its one board, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
146
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

haunting

on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BESTILLED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BESTIL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BESTILLBESTILLSBESTILLING

Could you have found BESTILLED?

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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.

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