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EARLY

EARLY is a genuine outlier — when it sat on the grid, almost no one found it.

Definition

adjective

At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.

Definition via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

The word, broken down

5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Distinct letters

EARLY starts with E and ends with Y. Its letters in order are AELRY — useful if you are hunting it on a scrambled grid.

Is EARLY a valid word?

Yes. EARLY is accepted in OUTLIER, the daily word game where every word is scored on how few players found it. The rarer the word, the higher it scores — and EARLY has been worth up to 100 points.

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