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SKELLIED

8 letters

Definition of SKELLIED

verb

simple past and past participle of skelly

SKELLY

noun

A squint.

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Word DNA

SKELLIED inherits its ancestry from its root, SKELLY.

Line of descent

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

3 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

verb

Same root, SKELLY · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Scots, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

SKELLIED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
167
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

markbawn

on Day 167, 3 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SKELLIED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SKELLIED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEIKLLS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and L appear 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.

KILLDEES

Words that start SKELLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SKELLIESKELLIERSKELLIESSKELLIEST

Could you have found SKELLIED?

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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.

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