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WELLED

/wɛld/6 letters

Definition of WELLED

verb

simple past and past participle of well

WELL

adverb

Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.

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Word DNA

WELLED inherits its ancestry from its root, WELL.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,843)

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, WELL · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

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Rarity score
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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.

WELLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
137
First board
32
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.

First ever to find it

firlalaithPATRON

on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WELLED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WELLED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEELLW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and L appear more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found WELLED?

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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.

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