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ROWDY
Definition of ROWDY
adjective
Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Possibly from row (“noisy argument”), originally used as a noun.
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.
ROWDY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 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
ROWDY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DORWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ROWDY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found ROWDY?
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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