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SHEETED

7 letters

Definition of SHEETED

adjective

Covered by a sheet, as of cloth or paper.

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Word DNA

SHEETED inherits its ancestry from its root, SHEET.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,281)

How it is built

adjective

Same root, SHEET · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European 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.

SHEETED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 178
Its 2 boards, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
169
First board
176
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 176, 12 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

gilderthorpe

on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SHEETED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SHEETED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEEHST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SHEETE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SHEETERSHEETERS

Could you have found SHEETED?

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 169 - and most players walked straight past it.

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