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WANLY
Definition of WANLY
adverb
In a wan or pale manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WANLY carries 2 further meanings.
In a wan or pale manner; palely.
adverb
in a weak or pale or languid manner
Where it comes from
From wan + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WAN · 6 relatives in the game
WANLY in a sentence
“He leaned up against a wall and smiled kind of wanly and said, "This thing is going to go on for a while, isn't it?"”
The Obama Campaign: What They’ll Remember - Swampland - TIME.com, 2008
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WANLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WANLY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ALNWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found WANLY?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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