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QUICKLY
Definition of QUICKLY
adverb
Rapidly; with speed; fast; with expedition.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe. By surface analysis, quick + -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.
QUICKLY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 133 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUICKLY starts with Q and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CIKLQUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUICKL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found QUICKLY?
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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.
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