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INDUSTRY
Definition of INDUSTRY
noun
The tendency to work persistently.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English industry, industrie, from Old French industrie, from Latin industria (“diligence, activity, industry”), from industrius (“diligent, active, zealous”), from Old Latin indostruus (“diligent, active”); origin unknown. Perhaps from indu (“in”) + ūst-, ūstr-, stem of ūrō (“burn, burn up, consume”, verb), related to Old High German ūstrī (“industry”), Old English andūstrian (“to hate, detest”, literally “to be consumed with zeal”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,195)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INDUSTRY · 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.
INDUSTRY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 32 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
INDUSTRY starts with I and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DINRSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start INDUST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INDUSTRY?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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