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WASHDAY
Definition of WASHDAY
noun
A day when laundry is washed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From wash + day. The Philippine sense may be traced back to a travel guide from 1908.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WASHDAY 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 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WASHDAY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AADHSWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start WASHDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found WASHDAY?
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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