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TOWARDLY
Definition of TOWARDLY
adjective
Promising, propitious.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English towardly; equivalent to toward + -ly.
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.
TOWARDLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TOWARDLY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADLORTWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TOWARD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found TOWARDLY?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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