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JOYFUL
Definition of JOYFUL
adjective
Feeling or causing joy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From joy + -ful.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JOYFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 71 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
JOYFUL starts with J and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read FJLOUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JOYFUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found JOYFUL?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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