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SAMELY
Definition of SAMELY
adjective
Similar; monotonous; unvaried.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From same + -ly. Compare Middle English samli (“together, with each other”, adverb).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Its etymology also names Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SAMELY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 64, 23 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 64, 23 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAMELY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AELMSY - 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.
Could you have found SAMELY?
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 64 - and most players walked straight past it.
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