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LONELY
Definition of LONELY
adjective
Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From lone + -ly, or from an apheretic shortening of alonely. See lone.
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.
LONELY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 110, 7 September 2026.
Built from these letters
LONELY starts with L and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ELLNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Could you have found LONELY?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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