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DWELLED

/dwɛld/7 letters

Definition of DWELLED

verb

simple past and past participle of dwell

DWELL

noun

A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.

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Word DNA

DWELLED inherits its ancestry from its root, DWELL.

Line of descent

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

5 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

16th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.7%

of traced words share this origin (209)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, DWELL · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Swedish.

Every Old Norse word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

DWELLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 148
Its one board, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
17
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

cryptical

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

Built from these letters

DWELLED
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start DWELLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DWELLED?

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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