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DRIVEWAY

/ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/8 letters

Definition of DRIVEWAY

noun

A short private road that leads to a house or garage.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From drive + way.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Same root, DRIVEWAY · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DRIVEWAY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 12 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
33
First board
121
Latest board
51
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 34 days.

First ever to find it

deviouspixy

on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DRIVEWAY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DRIVEWAY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADEIRVWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start DRIVEW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DRIVEWAY?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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