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OVERFULL
Definition of OVERFULL
adjective
excessively filled; full to overflowing
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English overful, overfulle, from Old English oferfull (“overfull”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz; equivalent to over- + full. Cognate with German übervoll (“overfull”), Swedish överfull (“overfull”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,911)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names 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.
OVERFULL 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 13 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
OVERFULL starts with O and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EFLLORUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start OVERFU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OVERFULL?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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