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NOODLED
Definition of NOODLED
verb
simple past and past participle of noodle
noun
A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
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Word DNA
NOODLED inherits its ancestry from its root, NOODLE.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (825)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, NOODLE · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NOODLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
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
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NOODLED starts with N and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDELNOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and D appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start NOODLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NOODLED?
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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