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TESTED
Definition of TESTED
verb
simple past and past participle of test
noun
A challenge, trial. An examination, given often during the academic term. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc. A standardised measure, consisting of one or more items.
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Word DNA
TESTED inherits its ancestry from its root, TEST.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TEST · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TESTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TESTED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEESTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found TESTED?
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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