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DUNCERY

7 letters

Definition of DUNCERY

noun

Stupidity or idiocy.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From dunce + -ery.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

DUNCERY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 3 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
72
First board
93
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

DUNCERY
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DUNCERY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CDENRUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start DUNCER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DUNCERY?

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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