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PUDSY

/ˈpʌd.zi/5 letters

Definition of PUDSY

adjective

Slightly fat; pudgy, chubby.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From pud (“pudding”) + -sy.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound-sy

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.

PUDSY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 3 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
64
First board
161
Latest board
56
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 64, 23 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

juneseptember

on Day 64, 23 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Could you have found PUDSY?

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 64 - and most players walked straight past it.

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