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NAMED

/neɪmd/5 letters

Definition of NAMED

adjective

Having a name.

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Word DNA

NAMED inherits its ancestry from its root, NAME.

Line of descent

  1. Hungarian
  2. Finnish
  3. Sanskrit
  4. Russian
  5. Spanish
  6. Latin
  7. Swedish
  8. Icelandic
  9. Norwegian
  10. Danish
  11. Yiddish
  12. Dutch
  13. Proto-Indo-European
  14. Proto-Germanic
  15. Old English
  16. Middle English
  17. English

16 recorded generations before English.

Hungarian

Deepest traced root

48th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.1%

of traced words share this origin (47)

Uralic

branch · 0.1% of traced words

How it is built

adjective1 syllable-onym

Same root, NAME · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Japanese.

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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.

NAMED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its 6 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
7
First board
97
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 65 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

NAMED starts with N and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found NAMED?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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