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DISFAVOURABLY
Definition of DISFAVOURABLY
adverb
Not favourably; unfavourably.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From disfavourable + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DISFAVOURABLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 135, 2 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DISFAVOURABLY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AABDFILORSUVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start DISFAVOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DISFAVOURABLY?
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 135 - and most players walked straight past it.
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