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SCAITHED

8 letters

Definition of SCAITHED

verb

simple past and past participle of scaith

SCAITH

noun

Injury; wound.

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Word DNA

SCAITHED inherits its ancestry from its root, SCAITH.

How it is built

verb

Same root, SCAITH · 2 relatives in the game

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.

SCAITHED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its 2 boards, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
142
First board
148
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.

First ever to find it

alangford

on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SCAITHED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SCAITHED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHIST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start SCAITH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SCAITHSCAITHSSCAITHINGSCAITHLESS

Could you have found SCAITHED?

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 142 - and most players walked straight past it.

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