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DOWRY
Definition 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.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English dowarye, dowerie, from Anglo-Norman dowarie, douarie, from Old French douaire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium, from Latin dōs. Doublet of dower.
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.
DOWRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 176 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DOWRY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DORWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found DOWRY?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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