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HELLED
Definition of HELLED
verb
simple past and past participle of hell
proper noun
A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.
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Word DNA
HELLED inherits its ancestry from its root, HELL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
9.1%
of traced words share this origin (2,383)
How it is built
Same root, HELL · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Norwegian, Polish and 4 more.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HELLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HELLED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEHLL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found HELLED?
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.
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