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CHEESY
Definition of CHEESY
adjective
Of or relating to cheese.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English chesy, equivalent to cheese + -y. Doublet of caseic. Compare German käsig (“cheesy”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “How was the 'overdramatic' sense derived?”)
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.
CHEESY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHEESY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEEHSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 55
Could you have found CHEESY?
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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.
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