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CLOUTED
Definition of CLOUTED
adjective
Clotted; coagulated.
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Other senses
CLOUTED carries 4 further meanings.
Patched; mended with clouts; mended or put together clumsily; cobbled: as, clouted shoes.
Clothed or covered with clouts or patched garments; ragged: as, a clouted beggar.
Studded, strengthened, or fastened with cloutnails.
A variant of clotted.
Word DNA
CLOUTED inherits its ancestry from its root, CLOUT.
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, CLOUT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Old Norse, Russian, Swedish.
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.
CLOUTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CLOUTED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDELOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CLOUTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CLOUTED?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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