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TOLD
Definition of TOLD
verb
simple past and past participle of tell
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tolde, talde (first and third person singular preterite), from Old English tealde (first and third person singular preterite), from Proto-Germanic *talid-, preterite stem of Proto-Germanic *taljaną (“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell + -ed.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOLD in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 45 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TOLD starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DLOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 TOLD?
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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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