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QUINSIED

8 letters

Definition of QUINSIED

adjective

Afflicted with quinsy.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From quinsy + -ed.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

QUINSIED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its 4 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
81
First board
101
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

amphipodgirl

on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

QUINSIED
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

QUINSIED starts with Q and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIINQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

SQUINIED

Words that start QUINSI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

QUINSIES

Could you have found QUINSIED?

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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.

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