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EYED

/aɪd/4 letters

Definition of EYED

adjective

Having eyes.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (4,799)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective1 syllablecompound-ed

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

EYED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its 6 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
76
First board
136
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

elsie55

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EYED
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

EYED starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start EYED

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EYEDNESSEYEDROPSEYEDNESSESEYEDROPPEREYEDROPPERS

Could you have found EYED?

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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.

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