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WATERY
Definition of WATERY
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English watery, wattry, from Old English wæteriġ (“watery”), from Proto-West Germanic *watarīg. Equivalent to water + -y.
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.
WATERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WATERY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AERTWY - 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 16
Could you have found WATERY?
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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