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DOWABLE
Definition of DOWABLE
adjective
Capable of being endowed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French dowable; equivalent to dow + -able.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (856)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
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.
DOWABLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 50 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOWABLE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABDELOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found DOWABLE?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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