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BEAUTIFUL
Definition of BEAUTIFUL
adjective
Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,197)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BEAUTIFUL · 2 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.
BEAUTIFUL in OUTLIER
It has fitted 11 boards so far. 247 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BEAUTIFUL starts with B and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ABEFILTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start BEAUTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BEAUTIFUL?
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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.
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