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THRUSTED

8 letters

Definition of THRUSTED

verb

simple past and past participle of thrust

THRUST

noun

An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

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Word DNA

THRUSTED inherits its ancestry from its root, THRUST.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old Norse
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,343)

How it is built

verb

Same root, THRUST · 3 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

THRUSTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 2 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
106
First board
148
Latest board
42
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

poghammarskjold

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

THRUSTED
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start THRUST

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

THRUSTTHRUSTSTHRUSTERTHRUSTORTHRUSTERSTHRUSTFULTHRUSTINGTHRUSTORSTHRUSTINGS

Could you have found THRUSTED?

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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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