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FOWLED

/faʊld/6 letters

Definition of FOWLED

verb

simple past and past participle of fowl

FOWL

noun

Any bird.

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Word DNA

FOWLED inherits its ancestry from its root, FOWL.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,724)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, FOWL · 6 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic 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.

FOWLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 16 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
41
First board
160
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

emmykei

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FOWLED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FOWLED starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEFLOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

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

Could you have found FOWLED?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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