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HAUNTEDLY
Definition of HAUNTEDLY
adverb
In a haunted way.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From haunted + -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.
HAUNTEDLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAUNTEDLY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADEHLNTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HAUNTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HAUNTEDLY?
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 142 - and most players walked straight past it.
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