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SCRAWNY
Definition of SCRAWNY
adjective
Thin, malnourished, and weak.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) + -y. Compare Norwegian skran (“lean, thin, skinny”), English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).
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.
SCRAWNY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 33 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCRAWNY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACNRSWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCRAWN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found SCRAWNY?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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