The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
QUILLY
Definition of QUILLY
adjective
Pertaining to or resembling a quill.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From quill + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
QUILLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUILLY starts with Q and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ILLQUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found QUILLY?
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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.
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