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GLUED

/ɡluːd/5 letters

Definition of GLUED

adjective

Entirely focused, unable to be distracted.

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Word DNA

GLUED inherits its ancestry from its root, GLUE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,764)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

adjective1 syllable

Same root, GLUE · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

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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.

GLUED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 26 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
26
Boards found on
25
First board
151
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

GLUED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found GLUED?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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