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DOZED

5 letters

Definition of DOZED

verb

simple past and past participle of doze

DOZE

verb

To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

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Word DNA

DOZED inherits its ancestry from its root, DOZE.

Line of descent

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

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,787)

How it is built

verb

Same root, DOZE · 9 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Old English, Scots, Swedish.

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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.

DOZED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its one board, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
145
First board
23
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

aurahealer

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOZED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DOZED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEOZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Could you have found DOZED?

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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.

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