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GASHLY
Definition of GASHLY
adjective
Ghastly, horrible.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Perhaps a dialectal alteration of ghastly, by association with gash.
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.
GASHLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GASHLY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGHLSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GASHLY?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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