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PLAGUED
Definition of PLAGUED
verb
simple past and past participle of plague
noun
The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Word DNA
PLAGUED inherits its ancestry from its root, PLAGUE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLAGUE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Old English, 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.
PLAGUED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 108 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PLAGUED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEGLPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PLAGUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found PLAGUED?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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