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ILLUDED

7 letters

Definition of ILLUDED

verb

simple past and past participle of illude

ILLUDE

verb

To give a false impression to.

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Word DNA

ILLUDED inherits its ancestry from its root, ILLUDE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

32.5%

of traced words share this origin (8,629)

Italic

branch · 32.5% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, ILLUDE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ILLUDED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 132
Its one board, across 132 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

eriocheir

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

Built from these letters

ILLUDED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ILLUDED starts with I and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEILLU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L and D appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start ILLUDE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ILLUDEILLUDES

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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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