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STARCHEDLY
Definition of STARCHEDLY
adverb
With stiff formality.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From starched + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, STARCH · 11 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STARCHEDLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
Built from these letters
STARCHEDLY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHLRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start STARCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STARCHEDLY?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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