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DRUDGERY
Definition of DRUDGERY
noun
Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ forming nouns).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DRUDGERY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DRUDGERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DRUDGERY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DDEGRRUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and R appear more than once.
Words that start DRUDGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DRUDGERY?
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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