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TREADED

7 letters

Definition of TREADED

verb

simple past and past participle of tread

TREAD

verb

To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.

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Word DNA

TREADED inherits its ancestry from its root, TREAD.

Line of descent

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

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.5%

of traced words share this origin (922)

Germanic

branch · 22.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, TREAD · 4 relatives in the game

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

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.

TREADED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 131
Its one board, across 131 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

jeanbelle

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TREADED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TREADED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADDEERT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and D appear more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

DERATEDREDATED

Words that start TREADE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TREADERTREADERS

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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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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