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OAFISHLY
Definition of OAFISHLY
adverb
in an oafish manner
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From oafish + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, OAF · 4 relatives in the game
OAFISHLY in a sentence
“We're not sure why Jay Elect asked Diddy to contribute to this fascinatingly ranty Biggie Smalls tribute, but as expected, Diddy spends his cameo flogging Cîroc ( "A bottle of Cîroc will turn a private jet to Soul Plane"?) and generally behaving oafishly.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OAFISHLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
OAFISHLY starts with O and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFHILOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start OAFISH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found OAFISHLY?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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