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PUDGY

/ˈpʌd͡ʒi/5 letters

Definition of PUDGY

adjective

Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From pudge + -y, or an alteration of pudsy.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PUDGY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 126 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 30 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
30
Boards found on
5
First board
109
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

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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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.

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