The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
BUILDED
Definition of BUILDED
verb
Alternative form of built; simple past and past participle of build
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
BUILDED inherits its ancestry from its root, BUILD.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,616)
How it is built
Same root, BUILD · 4 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BUILDED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUILDED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDDEILU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.
Could you have found BUILDED?
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.
Play today's OUTLIER