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HYDROPSY
Definition of HYDROPSY
noun
Edema, dropsy.
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Where it comes from
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HYDROPSY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HYDROPSY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 161, 28 October 2026.
Built from these letters
HYDROPSY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DHOPRSYY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. Y appears more than once.
Words that start HYDROP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HYDROPSY?
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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.
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