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ADJUSTIVE

9 letters

Definition of ADJUSTIVE

adjective

Tending or serving to adjust.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From adjust + -ive.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ADJUSTIVE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its one board, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
72
First board
30
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.

First ever to find it

drwhodathunkit

on Day 72, 31 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ADJUSTIVE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ADJUSTIVE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEIJSTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start ADJUST

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ADJUSTADJUSTSADJUSTEDADJUSTERADJUSTORADJUSTERSADJUSTINGADJUSTORSADJUSTABLEADJUSTABLYADJUSTMENTADJUSTMENTS

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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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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