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COUCHED
Definition of COUCHED
verb
simple past and past participle of couch
noun
An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
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Word DNA
COUCHED inherits its ancestry from its root, COUCH.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.8%
of traced words share this origin (750)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COUCH · 4 relatives 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.
COUCHED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COUCHED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CCDEHOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start COUCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COUCHED?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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