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IRRADIATED

10 letters

Definition of IRRADIATED

verb

simple past and past participle of irradiate

IRRADIATE

adjective

Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated.

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Word DNA

IRRADIATED inherits its ancestry from its root, IRRADIATE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Middle English
  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 (2,623)

How it is built

verbcompoundin-ir-

Same root, IRRADIATE · 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.

IRRADIATED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 2 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
139
First board
141
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

philthyphil

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

IRRADIATED
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start IRRADI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found IRRADIATED?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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