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QUITCHED
Definition of QUITCHED
verb
simple past and past participle of quitch
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Word DNA
QUITCHED inherits its ancestry from its root, QUITCH.
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 (1,251)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUITCH · 3 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.
QUITCHED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
QUITCHED starts with Q and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEHIQTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUITCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found QUITCHED?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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