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WHERRIED

8 letters

Definition of WHERRIED

verb

simple past and past participle of wherry

WHERRY

noun

A boat or light ship used to navigate inland waterways.

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Word DNA

WHERRIED inherits its ancestry from its root, WHERRY.

Line of descent

  1. Welsh
  2. French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Welsh

Deepest traced root

35th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (138)

Celtic

branch · 0.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, WHERRY · 4 relatives in the game

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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.

WHERRIED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its 2 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
152
First board
154
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

hazelshadePATRON

on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WHERRIED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start WHERRI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WHERRITWHERRIESWHERRITSWHERRITEDWHERRITING

Could you have found WHERRIED?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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