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PERFECTED

9 letters

Definition of PERFECTED

verb

simple past and past participle of perfect

PERFECT

adjective

Fitting its definition precisely.

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Word DNA

PERFECTED inherits its ancestry from its root, PERFECT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,613)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundper-

Same root, PERFECT · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

PERFECTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its one board, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
120
First board
48
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 48 days.

First ever to find it

nanotear

on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PERFECTED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PERFEC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PERFECTPERFECTAPERFECTIPERFECTOPERFECTSPERFECTASPERFECTERPERFECTLYPERFECTORPERFECTOSPERFECTERSPERFECTEST

Could you have found PERFECTED?

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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.

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