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EPITOMIZED

10 letters

Definition of EPITOMIZED

verb

simple past and past participle of epitomize

EPITOMIZE

verb

To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.

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Word DNA

EPITOMIZED inherits its ancestry from its root, EPITOME.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. Middle French
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.2%

of traced words share this origin (9,569)

Hellenic

branch · 12.2% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundepi-

Same root, EPITOME · 10 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
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.

EPITOMIZED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its one board, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
29
First board
130
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 130 days.

First ever to find it

ascher

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EPITOMIZED
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

EPITOMIZED starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEIIMOPTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and I appear more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start EPITOM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found EPITOMIZED?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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