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DEVILRY
Definition of DEVILRY
noun
Mischief.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
DEVILRY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Devilish character or conduct; extreme wickedness; wicked mischief.
noun
Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.
noun
The whole body of evil spirits.
noun
wickedness, cruelty.
Where it comes from
From Middle English develrye; equivalent to devil + -ry.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,064)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEVILRY · 1 relative in the game
DEVILRY in a sentence
“But this conflation of good times with devilry is like something out of a 17th century Puritan ethic which goes by the dictum that someone somewhere is enjoying themselves and this must be stopped immediately.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEVILRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 93 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DEVILRY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEILRVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of DEVILRY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found DEVILRY?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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