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DRUXIEST
Definition of DRUXIEST
Wiktionary has no entry for DRUXIEST itself. This is its base word, DRUXY.
adjective
Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish colour; rotten, decayed.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for DRUXY.
From drix (rotten part of wood) [Term?] + -y (the forms drixy, droxy and drucksy occur in various dialects), of unclear origin. The adjective is attested since at least the 1580s, in The Arte of English Poesie. One early (1913) suggestion is that drucksy is connected to (perhaps metathesis of) Scottish durk (“spoil, ruin”), but that sense appears to be a simple extension of the more usual meaning of durk, "to stab with a dirk" (itself a word of obscure origin).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DRUXIEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DRUXIEST starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DEIRSTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start DRUXIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DRUXIEST?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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