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WELDED
Definition of WELDED
verb
simple past and past participle of weld
noun
A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
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Word DNA
WELDED inherits its ancestry from its root, WELD.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
27th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (107)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WELD · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Old French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WELDED 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 23 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
WELDED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEELW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and D appear more than once.
Could you have found WELDED?
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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