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SURCHARGED

10 letters

Definition of SURCHARGED

adjective

overprinted with a new value

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Word DNA

SURCHARGED inherits its ancestry from its root, SURCHARGE.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (837)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompoundsur-

Same root, SURCHARGE · 1 relative in the game

SURCHARGE

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

SURCHARGED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 146
Its one board, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
141
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

mcjustin

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SURCHARGED
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SURCHARGED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEGHRRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start SURCHA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SURCHARGESURCHARGERSURCHARGESSURCHARGERSSURCHARGING

Could you have found SURCHARGED?

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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.

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