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SCYTHED
Definition of SCYTHED
adjective
Armed with scythes.
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Other senses
SCYTHED carries 2 further meanings.
adjective
Armed with scythes, as a chariot.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of scythe.
Word DNA
SCYTHED inherits its ancestry from its root, SCYTHE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Icelandic
- Dutch
- Middle Low German
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
8 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCYTHE · 10 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.
SCYTHED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 97 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCYTHED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEHSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCYTHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
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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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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