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FETIDLY
Definition of FETIDLY
adverb
In a fetid manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From fetid + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
FETIDLY in a sentence
“Shunned as "courtesy" ... or as being fetidly distasteful.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FETIDLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 195 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FETIDLY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEFILTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found FETIDLY?
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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