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HAUNTINGLY
Definition of HAUNTINGLY
adverb
In a haunting manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hauntingli, hawntyngly, equivalent to haunting + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,181)
branch · 22.4% 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.
HAUNTINGLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAUNTINGLY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGHILNNTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Could you have found HAUNTINGLY?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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