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PAUNCHILY

9 letters

Definition of PAUNCHILY

adverb

In a paunchy manner.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From paunchy + -ily.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adverbcompound-ily

Same root, PAUNCH · 8 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.

PAUNCHILY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 176
Its 6 boards, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
156
First board
174
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 156, 23 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 174, 10 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 156, 23 October 2026.

Built from these letters

PAUNCHILY
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PAUNCH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PAUNCHILY?

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 156 - and most players walked straight past it.

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