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CLEANLY
Definition of CLEANLY
adjective
Being habitually clean, practising good hygiene.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English clenly, clenliche, clanly, from Old English clǣnlīċ (“cleanly, pure, excellent”), equivalent to clean + -ly.
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.
CLEANLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CLEANLY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACELLNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Words that start CLEANL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CLEANLY?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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