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TERRIFIED

/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪd/9 letters

Definition of TERRIFIED

adjective

Extremely frightened.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective3 syllables

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TERRIFIED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 3 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
90
First board
141
Latest board
48
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

TERRIFIED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TERRIFIED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEFIIRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, R and I appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start TERRIF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TERRIFYTERRIFICTERRIFIERTERRIFIESTERRIFICALTERRIFIERSTERRIFYINGTERRIFICALLYTERRIFYINGLY

Could you have found TERRIFIED?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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