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OCTOPUSED
Definition of OCTOPUSED
verb
simple past and past participle of octopus
noun
Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
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Word DNA
OCTOPUSED inherits its ancestry from its root, OCTOPUS.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,477)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OCTOPUS · 4 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.
OCTOPUSED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OCTOPUSED starts with O and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEOOPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start OCTOPU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OCTOPUSED?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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