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MEANLY
Definition of MEANLY
adverb
Humbly, of or from low social status; basely.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English meneli, meneliche, equivalent to mean + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,287)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
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.
MEANLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 101, 29 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MEANLY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AELMNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found MEANLY?
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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.
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