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LORY
Definition of LORY
noun
Any of various small, brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily Loriinae.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Malay luri, name of kind of parrot, said to be a dialectal variant of Malay nuri. Doublet of lourie. Unrelated to Spanish loro.
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.
LORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 57, 16 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 65 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LORY starts with L and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read LORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found LORY?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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