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COVETOUSLY

10 letters

Definition of COVETOUSLY

adverb

In a covetous manner

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Other senses

COVETOUSLY carries 3 further meanings.

  1. With a strong or inordinate desire to obtain and possess; eagerly; avariciously.

  2. adverb

    in a greedy manner

  3. adverb

    with jealousy; in an envious manner

Where it comes from

From covetous + -ly.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adverbcompound-ly

Same root, COVETOUS · 1 relative in the game

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.

COVETOUSLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 102 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 29 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
29
Boards found on
49
First board
157
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

thistleraven

on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COVETOUSLY
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start COVETO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

COVETOUSCOVETOUSNESSCOVETOUSNESSES

Could you have found COVETOUSLY?

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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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