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DUMOUS
Definition of DUMOUS
adjective
Abounding with bushes and briars.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Latin dumōsus (“overgrown with thorns or briars”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DUMOUS · 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.
DUMOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 100 days.
Built from these letters
DUMOUS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DMOSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Could you have found DUMOUS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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