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WATERFLOODED
Definition of WATERFLOODED
verb
simple past and past participle of waterflood
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Word DNA
WATERFLOODED inherits its ancestry from its root, WATERFLOOD.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,197)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WATERFLOOD · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WATERFLOODED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
Built from these letters
WATERFLOODED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADDEEFLOORTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, O and D appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start WATERFLO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WATERFLOODED?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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