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ESTRAYED
Definition of ESTRAYED
verb
simple past and past participle of estray
noun
An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray.
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Word DNA
ESTRAYED inherits its ancestry from its root, ESTRAY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (842)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ESTRAY · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ESTRAYED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 59 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ESTRAYED starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEERSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start ESTRAY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ESTRAYED?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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