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SWEATY

/ˈswɛti/6 letters

Definition of SWEATY

adjective

Covered in sweat.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English swety, equivalent to sweat + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (4,799)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Same root, SWEATY · 3 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · 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.

SWEATY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 23 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
30
First board
150
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

kiwinka

on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SWEATY
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SWEATY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AESTWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found SWEATY?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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