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KLUDGEY

7 letters

Definition of KLUDGEY

adjective

Alternative spelling of kludgy.

KLUDGY

adjective

Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

KLUDGEY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 15 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
32
First board
149
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

jkk2

on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

KLUDGEY
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

KLUDGEY starts with K and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEGKLUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start KLUDGE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found KLUDGEY?

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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.

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