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OBTUNDED

8 letters

Definition of OBTUNDED

verb

simple past and past participle of obtund

OBTUND

verb

To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.

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Word DNA

OBTUNDED inherits its ancestry from its root, OBTUND.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,234)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundob-

Same root, OBTUND · 4 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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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.

OBTUNDED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
172
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

noirish

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OBTUNDED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OBTUNDED starts with O and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDDENOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.

Words that start OBTUND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OBTUNDED?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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