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ENGLOOMED

9 letters

Definition of ENGLOOMED

verb

simple past and past participle of engloom

ENGLOOM

verb

to make gloomy

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Word DNA

ENGLOOMED inherits its ancestry from its root, ENGLOOM.

How it is built

verbcompounden-

Same root, ENGLOOM · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ENGLOOMED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
166
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 166, 2 November 2026.

Built from these letters

ENGLOOMED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start ENGLOO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ENGLOOMENGLOOMSENGLOOMING

Could you have found ENGLOOMED?

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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.

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