The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
WEDGED
Definition of WEDGED
verb
simple past and past participle of wedge
noun
One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
WEDGED inherits its ancestry from its root, WEDGE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (961)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WEDGE · 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.
WEDGED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WEDGED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEEGW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and D appear more than once.
Could you have found WEDGED?
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.
Play today's OUTLIER