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IGNITED

7 letters

Definition of IGNITED

verb

simple past and past participle of ignite

IGNITE

verb

To set fire to (something), to light (something)

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Word DNA

IGNITED inherits its ancestry from its root, IGNITE.

Line of descent

  1. Russian
  2. Sanskrit
  3. Proto-Indo-European
  4. Latin
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Russian

Deepest traced root

20th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.5%

of traced words share this origin (147)

Slavic

branch · 0.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, IGNITE · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

IGNITED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 154
Its 12 boards, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
37
First board
113
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 41 days.

First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.

Built from these letters

IGNITED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

IGNITED starts with I and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEGIINT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I 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 IGNITE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found IGNITED?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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