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DUSTY
Definition of DUSTY
adjective
Covered with dust.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English dusty, dusti, from Old English dūstiġ, dystiġ, dȳstiġ (“dusty”), equivalent to dust + -y. Cognate with Dutch donzig (“cottony, downy, woolly”), German dunstig (“hazy, misty”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,908)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DUSTY · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DUSTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DUSTY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found DUSTY?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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