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CREEPILY

8 letters

Definition of CREEPILY

adverb

In a creepy manner.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From creepy + -ly.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adverbcompound-ly

Same root, CREEP · 11 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

CREEPILY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 15 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
28
First board
142
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

CREEPILY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEEILPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start CREEPI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CREEPIECREEPIERCREEPIESCREEPINGCREEPISHCREEPIESTCREEPINGSCREEPINESSCREEPINGLYCREEPINESSES

Could you have found CREEPILY?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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