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DRIVELED

8 letters

Definition of DRIVELED

verb

simple past and past participle of drivel

DRIVEL

noun

Nonsense; senseless talk.

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Word DNA

DRIVELED inherits its ancestry from its root, DRIVEL.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,311)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, DRIVEL · 4 relatives in the game

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

Rarity score
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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.

DRIVELED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 153
Its one board, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
21
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

josesia

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DRIVELED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DRIVELED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEEILRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.

Words that start DRIVEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DRIVELDRIVELSDRIVELERDRIVELERSDRIVELINEDRIVELINGDRIVELLEDDRIVELLERDRIVELINESDRIVELLERSDRIVELLING

Could you have found DRIVELED?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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