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STAUNCHED
Definition of STAUNCHED
verb
simple past and past participle of staunch
adjective
Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight. Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
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Word DNA
STAUNCHED inherits its ancestry from its root, STAUNCH.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,283)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, STAUNCH · 6 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STAUNCHED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 47, 6 July 2026.
Built from these letters
STAUNCHED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHNSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 STAUNC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STAUNCHED?
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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.
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