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STONEWALL
Definition of STONEWALL
noun
An obstruction.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English stonwal, stone wall, stanewalle (“wall made of stone”), from Old English stānweall (“stonewall”), equivalent to stone + wall. The alcoholic drink (sense 3) was perhaps named thus because its effect was as potent as running into a stone wall.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,150)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, STONEWALL · 2 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.
STONEWALL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 167, 3 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STONEWALL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AELLNOSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start STONEW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STONEWALL?
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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.
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