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COUNTED

/ˈkaʊntɪd/7 letters

Definition of COUNTED

verb

simple past and past participle of count

COUNT

verb

To recite numbers in sequence.

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Word DNA

COUNTED inherits its ancestry from its root, COUNT.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Anglo-Norman
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,961)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb2 syllables

Same root, COUNT · 10 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Russian.

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

COUNTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 162
Its 11 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
28
First board
154
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

meganobrien

on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COUNTED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

COUNTED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDENOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start COUNTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found COUNTED?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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