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QUILLED
Definition of QUILLED
adjective
Having quills or similar structures.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
QUILLED carries 4 further meanings.
Crimped; fluted.
Furnished with quills.
Formed into a quill: said of bark: as, quilled calisaya, contrasted with flat calisaya.
In heraldry, having a quill: said of a feather employed as a bearing, and used only when the quill of a feather is of a different tincture from the rest.
Where it comes from
From quill + -ed.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, QUILL · 2 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.
QUILLED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 121 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUILLED starts with Q and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEILLQU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUILLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found QUILLED?
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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.
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