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OVERSTAINED

11 letters

Definition of OVERSTAINED

verb

simple past and past participle of overstain

OVERSTAIN

verb

To stain the surface of; besmear.

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Word DNA

OVERSTAINED inherits its ancestry from its root, OVERSTAIN.

How it is built

verbcompoundover-

Same root, OVERSTAIN · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

OVERSTAINED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 151
Its 4 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
50
First board
128
Latest board
57
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

izzydmelon

on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OVERSTAINED
11
Letters
5
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start OVERSTA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

OVERSTAYOVERSTACKOVERSTAFFOVERSTAINOVERSTANDOVERSTANKOVERSTAREOVERSTATEOVERSTAYSOVERSTAFFSOVERSTAINSOVERSTANDS

Could you have found OVERSTAINED?

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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.

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