The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

FIDGETED

8 letters

Definition of FIDGETED

verb

past participle of fidget

FIDGET

verb

To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Word DNA

FIDGETED inherits its ancestry from its root, FIDGET.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.1%

of traced words share this origin (1,257)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-ettan

Same root, FIDGET · 4 relatives in the game

Every Old 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.

FIDGETED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 154
Its 2 boards, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
131
First board
132
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.

First ever to find it

misshen

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

Built from these letters

FIDGETED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FIDGETED starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEEFGIT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.

Words that start FIDGET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FIDGETED?

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.

Play today's OUTLIER