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DROUGHT
Definition of DROUGHT
noun
A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English droughte, droghte, drouȝte, from Old English drūgaþ. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde. By surface analysis, dry + -t (abstract nominal suffix).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,890)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DROUGHT · 10 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DROUGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 79 boards so far. 191 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DROUGHT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DGHORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DROUGH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found DROUGHT?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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