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SLOUCHED

8 letters

Definition of SLOUCHED

verb

simple past and past participle of slouch

SLOUCH

noun

A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance.

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Word DNA

SLOUCHED inherits its ancestry from its root, SLOUCH.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

14th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (814)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, SLOUCH · 9 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Latin, Swedish.

Every Old Norse 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.

SLOUCHED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 52 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 21 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
21
First board
159
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

peejayc

on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start SLOUCH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SLOUCHED?

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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.

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