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FROWSTILY
Definition of FROWSTILY
adverb
In a frowsty manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From frowsty + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
FROWSTILY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 174, 10 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 174, 10 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FROWSTILY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FILORSTWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FROWST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FROWSTILY?
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 174 - and most players walked straight past it.
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