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RECOUNTED
Definition of RECOUNTED
verb
simple past and past participle of recount
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Word DNA
RECOUNTED inherits its ancestry from its root, RECOUNT.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Anglo-Norman
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (834)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RECOUNT · 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.
RECOUNTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RECOUNTED starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEENORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RECOUN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RECOUNTED?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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