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SCORCHED
Definition of SCORCHED
adjective
Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.
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Word DNA
SCORCHED inherits its ancestry from its root, SCORCH.
Line of descent
- Old Norse
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (207)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCORCH · 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.
SCORCHED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCORCHED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CCDEHORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start SCORCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCORCHED?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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