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PUNCHILY
Definition of PUNCHILY
adverb
In a punchy manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From punchy + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUNCHILY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 61, 20 July 2026.
Built from these letters
PUNCHILY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CHILNPUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PUNCHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PUNCHILY?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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