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BARKINGLY
Definition of BARKINGLY
adverb
With barking sounds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From barking + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BARK · 12 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BARKINGLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 171, 7 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BARKINGLY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABGIKLNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found BARKINGLY?
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 171 - and most players walked straight past it.
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