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OVERFILL
Definition of OVERFILL
verb
To fill beyond capacity or beyond what is appropriate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English *overfillen, oferfüllen, from Old English oferfyllan (“to cram, overfill”), equivalent to over- + fill. Cognate with Middle Low German overfullen, German überfüllen, Danish overfylde, Swedish överfylla.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,066)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OVERFILL · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Middle Low German, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OVERFILL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OVERFILL starts with O and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EFILLORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start OVERFI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OVERFILL?
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