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MEDIANLY
Definition of MEDIANLY
adverb
In a median direction
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From median + -ly.
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.
MEDIANLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MEDIANLY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADEILMNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MEDIAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MEDIANLY?
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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.
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