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DOUGHTILY
Definition of DOUGHTILY
adverb
In a doughty manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From doughty + -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.
DOUGHTILY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DOUGHTILY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DGHILOTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DOUGHT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found DOUGHTILY?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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