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GLUEY

5 letters

Definition of GLUEY

adjective

Viscous and adhesive, as glue.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English glewy; equivalent to glue + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GLUEY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 59 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 99
Its 16 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
25
First board
99
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

fuzzytorpedoes

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GLUEY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GLUEY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EGLUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start GLUEY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GLUEYNESSGLUEYNESSES

Could you have found GLUEY?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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