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DOLEFUL
Definition of DOLEFUL
adjective
Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English doleful, doolful, deolful, equivalent to dole + -ful.
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.
DOLEFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First found by a player on Day 76, 4 August 2026.
Built from these letters
DOLEFUL starts with D and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read DEFLLOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Words that start DOLEFU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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