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ANIMATELY
About ANIMATELY
ANIMATELY is a valid 9-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANIMATELY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 63 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ANIMATELY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AAEILMNTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ANIMAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found ANIMATELY?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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