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DOUBTED

/ˈdaʊtɪd/7 letters

Definition of DOUBTED

adjective

Considered doubtful; not trusted; uncertain.

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Word DNA

DOUBTED inherits its ancestry from its root, DOUBT.

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. Catalan
  3. Spanish
  4. Portuguese
  5. Middle French
  6. Proto-Indo-European
  7. Latin
  8. Old French
  9. Middle English
  10. English

9 recorded generations before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2%

of traced words share this origin (575)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Same root, DOUBT · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

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Rarity score
Withheld
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.

DOUBTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 147
Its one board, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
146
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 146, 13 October 2026.

Built from these letters

DOUBTED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DOUBTED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDDEOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.

Words that start DOUBTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DOUBTED?

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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.

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