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DROUTHIEST

10 letters

Definition of DROUTHIEST

adjective

superlative form of drouthy: most drouthy

DROUTHY

adjective

Droughty, dry.

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Word DNA

DROUTHIEST inherits its ancestry from its root, DROUGHT.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,890)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, DROUGHT · 10 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, German.

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

DROUTHIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its one board, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
152
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

mr_rob

on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DROUTHIEST
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DROUTHIEST starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DEHIORSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Words that start DROUTH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DROUTHIEST?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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