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MOTHY

5 letters

Definition of MOTHY

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a moth.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From moth + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MOTHY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 9 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
7
First board
119
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

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Built from these letters

MOTHY
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MOTHY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read HMOTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found MOTHY?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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