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CIRCLED
Definition of CIRCLED
verb
simple past and past participle of circle
CIRCLE
noun
A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
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Word DNA
CIRCLED inherits its ancestry from its root, CIRCLE.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,213)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CIRCLE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CIRCLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CIRCLED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CCDEILR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CIRCLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CIRCLED?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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