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PASTED
Definition of PASTED
verb
simple past and past participle of paste
noun
A soft moist mixture, in particular: One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. Pastry. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
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Word DNA
PASTED inherits its ancestry from its root, PAST.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,182)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PAST · 3 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.
PASTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PASTED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PASTED
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found PASTED?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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