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PESTILY
Definition of PESTILY
adverb
In a pesty manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pesty + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PEST · 10 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PESTILY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 149, 16 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 149, 16 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PESTILY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EILPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PESTIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PESTILY?
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 149 - and most players walked straight past it.
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