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STYMIED
Definition of STYMIED
verb
simple past and past participle of stymie
noun
A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
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Word DNA
STYMIED inherits its ancestry from its root, STYMIE.
Line of descent
- Scots
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
24th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (340)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, STYMIE · 7 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.
STYMIED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 63 boards so far. 224 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
STYMIED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIMSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start STYMIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found STYMIED?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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