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RESPITED

8 letters

Definition of RESPITED

verb

simple past and past participle of respite

RESPITE

noun

A brief interval of rest or relief.

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Word DNA

RESPITED inherits its ancestry from its root, RESPITE.

Line of descent

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

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,951)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, RESPITE · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

RESPITED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 24 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
25
First board
147
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

topherookie

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start RESPIT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RESPITED?

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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