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RESTY
Definition of RESTY
adjective
Restive, resistant to control.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Variant of restiff.
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.
RESTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 51 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RESTY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ERSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RESTY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found RESTY?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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