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DUDEEN

/duːˈdiːn/6 letters

Definition of DUDEEN

noun

A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Irish dúidín.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Irish
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Irish

Deepest traced root

23rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (332)

Celtic

branch · 0.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, DUDEEN · 1 relative in the game

Every Irish 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.

DUDEEN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its one board, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
141
First board
16
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

allplaynoworkPATRON

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DUDEEN
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DUDEEN starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read DDEENU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start DUDEEN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DUDEEN?

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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.

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