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DEWED

5 letters

Definition of DEWED

adjective

Full of, or covered in, dew

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Word DNA

DEWED inherits its ancestry from its root, DEW.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

9.1%

of traced words share this origin (2,408)

How it is built

adjective

Same root, DEW · 1 relative in the game

DEW

Its etymology also names Afrikaans, Dutch.

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Rarity score
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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.

DEWED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 132
Its one board, across 132 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
1
Days since seen

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

crankyraven

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DEWED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DEWED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEEW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.

Could you have found DEWED?

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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