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BILLOWY
Definition of BILLOWY
adjective
Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From billow + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BILLOWY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 110, 7 September 2026.
Built from these letters
BILLOWY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BILLOWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BILLOW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BILLOWY?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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