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TAUGHT

/tɔːt/6 letters

Definition of TAUGHT

verb

simple past and past participle of teach

TEACH

verb

To pass on knowledge to.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English taught(e), tau(h)t(e), from Old English tāhte, tǣhte, from Proto-Germanic *taihtē.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,888)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

TAUGHT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its 3 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
117
First board
154
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

seansolves

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TAUGHT
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TAUGHT starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AGHTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Could you have found TAUGHT?

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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.

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