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DEFLATIONARY
Definition of DEFLATIONARY
adjective
Associated with or tending to cause deflation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From deflation + -ary.
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.
DEFLATIONARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 82, 10 August 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
DEFLATIONARY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AADEFILNORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start DEFLATIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DEFLATIONARY?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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