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NUTSY

/ˈnʌt.si/5 letters

Definition of NUTSY

adjective

crazy

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From nuts + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Same root, NUT · 15 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

NUTSY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 4 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
72
First board
168
Latest board
88
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

iowagonian

on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Could you have found NUTSY?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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