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STROY
Definition of STROY
verb
To destroy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English stroyen, an apheretic form of destroyen (modern English destroy).
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.
STROY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 98, 26 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STROY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ORSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start STROY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STROY?
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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.
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