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RECOYLED

8 letters

Definition of RECOYLED

verb

simple past and past participle of recoyle

RECOIL · via recoyle

noun

A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.

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Word DNA

RECOYLED inherits its ancestry from its root, RECOIL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,234)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundre-

Same root, RECOIL · 8 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

RECOYLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
158
First board
15
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First ever to find it

taohuayuan

on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start RECOYL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RECOYLERECOYLESRECOYLING

Could you have found RECOYLED?

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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.

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