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FLOWERY
Definition of FLOWERY
adjective
Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,287)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLOWERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 135 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FLOWERY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFLORWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FLOWER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found FLOWERY?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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