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PLANTED
Definition of PLANTED
verb
simple past and past participle of plant
noun
An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English planted, iplaunted, iplanted, from Old English ġeplantod (“planted”), equivalent to plant + -ed.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,257)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLANT · 4 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.
PLANTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PLANTED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADELNPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PLANTED?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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