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PURVEYED

8 letters

Definition of PURVEYED

verb

simple past and past participle of purvey

PURVEY

verb

To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.

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Word DNA

PURVEYED inherits its ancestry from its root, PURVEY.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Anglo-Norman
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,764)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, PURVEY · 3 relatives in the game

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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.

PURVEYED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 14 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
49
First board
136
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First found by a player on Day 49, 8 July 2026.

Built from these letters

PURVEYED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PURVEY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PURVEYED?

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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.

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