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KNURLED
Definition of KNURLED
verb
simple past and past participle of knurl
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Other senses
KNURLED carries 4 further meanings.
Gnarled; full of knurls or knots.
Shrunken up.
Milled: said of the serrated edge of a coin. Also called knarled. See mill, 4.
adjective
Full of knots; gnarled.
Word DNA
KNURLED inherits its ancestry from its root, KNURL.
Line of descent
- Old Norse
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (208)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, KNURL · 2 relatives in the game
KNURLED in a sentence
“Same characteristics as the other side, except instead of a nice crab claw on the end there was a big knurled knob about the size of my fist (then).”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
KNURLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 101 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KNURLED starts with K and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEKLNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of KNURLED. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found KNURLED?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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