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SCROYLE
Definition of SCROYLE
noun
A mean person; a wretch.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare Old French escrouselle (“a kind of vermin”), escrouelles pl (“scrofula”), French écrouelles, from (assumed) Latin scrofulae. See scrofula, and compare cruels.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,613)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
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.
SCROYLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 104, 1 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 44 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCROYLE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CELORSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SCROYL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCROYLE?
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 104 - and most players walked straight past it.
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