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VEILED

6 letters

Definition of VEILED

adjective

Covered by a veil.

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Word DNA

VEILED inherits its ancestry from its root, VEIL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Anglo-Norman
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,951)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, VEIL · 10 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names German, Old French.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

VEILED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 91 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 34 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
34
Boards found on
23
First board
150
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.

Built from these letters

VEILED
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

VEILED starts with V and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEILV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears 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.

Words that start VEILED

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found VEILED?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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