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INSULTED

/ɪnˈsʌltɪd/8 letters

Definition of INSULTED

verb

simple past and past participle of insult

INSULT

verb

To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).

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Word DNA

INSULTED inherits its ancestry from its root, INSULT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Middle French
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

8.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,622)

How it is built

verb3 syllablescompoundin-

Same root, INSULT · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

INSULTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 11 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
39
First board
138
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.

Built from these letters

INSULTED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INSULTED starts with I and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEILNSTU - 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.

Words that start INSULT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INSULTINSULTSINSULTERINSULTANTINSULTERSINSULTINGINSULTABLEINSULTMENTINSULTINGLYINSULTMENTS

Could you have found INSULTED?

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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.

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