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QUIETLY
Definition of QUIETLY
adverb
Producing little or no noise.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English quietely, quyetly, equivalent to quiet + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,202)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUIETLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 111 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 43 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
QUIETLY starts with Q and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EILQTUY - 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.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found QUIETLY?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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