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CHOICELY

8 letters

Definition of CHOICELY

adverb

Taking care in choosing; with attention to preference.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English choisly; equivalent to choice + -ly.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.5%

of traced words share this origin (1,958)

Germanic

branch · 22.7% of traced words

How it is built

adverbcompound-ly

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CHOICELY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 131
Its one board, across 131 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
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First board
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Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 131, 28 September 2026.

Built from these letters

CHOICELY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CHOICELY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CCEHILOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.

Words that start CHOICE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHOICELY?

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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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