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CHEFED

6 letters

Definition of CHEFED

verb

simple past and past participle of chef

CHEF

noun

The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

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Word DNA

CHEFED inherits its ancestry from its root, CHEF.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,664)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, CHEF · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Proto-Indo-European.

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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.

CHEFED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its one board, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
163
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

faraday

on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHEFED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found CHEFED?

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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.

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