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DEAWY

5 letters

Definition of DEAWY

adjective

Obsolete form of dewy.

DEWY

adjective

Covered by dew.

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Word DNA

DEAWY inherits its ancestry from its root, DEWY.

Line of descent

  1. German
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

German

Deepest traced root

8th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (2,636)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, DEWY · 5 relatives in the game

Every German word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

DEAWY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its 2 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
13
First board
72
Latest board
59
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 88 days.

First ever to find it

kar

on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DEAWY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DEAWY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADEWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found DEAWY?

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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.

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