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SECONDARILY
Definition of SECONDARILY
adverb
In a secondary manner or degree. With lesser importance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English secundarili. By surface analysis, secondar(i) + -ly.
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.
SECONDARILY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SECONDARILY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACDEILNORSY - 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 SECONDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SECONDARILY?
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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.
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