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DUNCISHLY

9 letters

Definition of DUNCISHLY

adverb

In a duncish manner.

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Where it comes from

From duncish + -ly.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

DUNCISHLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 6 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
41
First board
101
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First found by a player on Day 41, 30 June 2026.

Built from these letters

DUNCISHLY
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start DUNCIS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DUNCISHLY?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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