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DAILY
Definition of DAILY
adjective
That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,847)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DAILY · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Scots, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DAILY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 120 boards so far. 76 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DAILY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADILY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DAILY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 4
Could you have found DAILY?
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 4 - and most players walked straight past it.
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