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SOUGHED

7 letters

Definition of SOUGHED

verb

simple past and past participle of sough

SOUGH

verb

To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.

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Word DNA

SOUGHED inherits its ancestry from its root, SOUGH.

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 (11,575)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SOUGH · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Icelandic, Scots.

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Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

SOUGHED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 36 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
36
Boards found on
62
First board
163
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 62, 21 July 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Could you have found SOUGHED?

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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.

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