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DOWERY
Definition of DOWERY
noun
Alternative form of dowry.
noun
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
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Other senses
DOWERY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
An obsolete form of dowry.
noun
See dower.
noun
dowry
noun
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Word DNA
DOWERY inherits its ancestry from its root, DOWRY.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DOWRY · 4 relatives in the game
DOWERY in a sentence
“She was fairly plain, but her father was wealthy, and a huge dowery had come with her”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DOWERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 127 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DOWERY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEORWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found DOWERY?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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