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DULLED

/dʌld/6 letters

Definition of DULLED

adjective

Made dull.

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Word DNA

DULLED inherits its ancestry from its root, DULL.

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 58 source languages in OUTLIER

9%

of traced words share this origin (2,585)

How it is built

adjective1 syllable

Same root, DULL · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Scots.

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

DULLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 143
Its one board, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

ludullu

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

Built from these letters

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

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

Could you have found DULLED?

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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