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LACKADAISY
Definition of LACKADAISY
adjective
Lackadaisical.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Alteration of lack-a-day or alack-the-day.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
LACKADAISY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LACKADAISY starts with L and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AAACDIKLSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start LACKAD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LACKADAISY?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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