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BLOODED

/ˈblʌ.dəd/7 letters

Definition of BLOODED

adjective

bloody, bleeding.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English bloded, equivalent to blood + -ed.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,183)

Germanic

branch · 22.4% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound-ed

Same root, BLOOD · 3 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.

BLOODED 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
76
First board
67
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.

First ever to find it

captbunnywabbit

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BLOODED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BLOODED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDDELOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and D 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.

BOODLED

Could you have found BLOODED?

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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.

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