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SUBDUED

/səbˈdud/7 letters

Definition of SUBDUED

adjective

Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive.

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Word DNA

SUBDUED inherits its ancestry from its root, SUBDUE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,726)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllables

Same root, SUBDUE · 6 relatives in the game

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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.

SUBDUED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its one board, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
146
First board
15
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First ever to find it

ovysk

on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SUBDUED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SUBDUED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDDESUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and D appear more than once.

Words that start SUBDUE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SUBDUESUBDUERSUBDUESSUBDUERSSUBDUEDLYSUBDUEMENTSUBDUEDNESSSUBDUEMENTS

Could you have found SUBDUED?

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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.

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