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SURQUEDY

8 letters

Definition of SURQUEDY

noun

Alternative form of surquedry.

SURQUEDRY

noun

Overweening pride; arrogance.

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Word DNA

SURQUEDY inherits its ancestry from its root, SURQUEDRY.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,501)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, SURQUEDRY · 1 relative in the game

SURQUEDRY

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.

SURQUEDY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
164
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

peperomiapizza

on Day 164, 31 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SURQUEDY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SURQUEDY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEQRSUUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start SURQUE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SURQUEDRYSURQUEDIESSURQUEDRIES

Could you have found SURQUEDY?

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 164 - and most players walked straight past it.

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