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POXY
Definition of POXY
adjective
Suffering from pox.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
POXY carries a second meaning.
adjective
sickening; unsatisfactory; generally bad
Where it comes from
From pox + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, POX · 6 relatives in the game
POXY in a sentence
“I only skimmed through the ‘Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude’ clips because it looks terrific and I want to see it properly, not in poxy Youtube-o-vision!”
Ballardian » 'Like Alice in Wonderland': Solveig Nordlund on J.G. Ballard, 2008
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POXY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 256 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POXY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read OPXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found POXY?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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