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STILTY

6 letters

Definition of STILTY

adjective

pompous

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From stilt + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, STILT · 8 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

STILTY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its one board, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
146
First board
17
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

initialsb

on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

STILTY
6
Letters
1
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

STILTY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ILSTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found STILTY?

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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.

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