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SULFURY

7 letters

Definition of SULFURY

adjective

Having a colour similar to that of sulfur.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From sulfur + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SULFURY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 4 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
16
First board
109
Latest board
78
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

jvafai

on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SULFURY
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SULFUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SULFURSULFURSSULFUREDSULFURETSULFURICSULFURYLSULFURATESULFURETSSULFURINGSULFURISESULFURIZESULFUROUS

Could you have found SULFURY?

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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.

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