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SLUICED
Definition of SLUICED
verb
simple past and past participle of sluice
noun
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
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Another sense
SLUICED carries a second meaning.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of sluice.
Word DNA
SLUICED inherits its ancestry from its root, SLUICE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SLUICE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch.
SLUICED in a sentence
“He drank enormous quantities of water, but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the water sluiced through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his pores.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SLUICED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 75 boards so far. 472 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 17, 6 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SLUICED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEILSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SLUICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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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 17 - and most players walked straight past it.
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