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STEALED
Definition of STEALED
verb
simple past and past participle of steal
verb
To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
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Word DNA
STEALED inherits its ancestry from its root, STEAL.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.5%
of traced words share this origin (937)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, STEAL · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STEALED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 130, 27 September 2026.
Built from these letters
STEALED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEELST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 STEALE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STEALED?
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 130 - and most players walked straight past it.
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