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DESIROUS
Definition of DESIROUS
adjective
Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English, from Old French desirrous, from desirrer + -ous.
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.
DESIROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DESIROUS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEIORSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start DESIRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DESIROUS?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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