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WEAKLIEST

9 letters

Definition of WEAKLIEST

adjective

superlative form of weakly: most weakly

WEAKLY

adjective

Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

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Word DNA

WEAKLIEST inherits its ancestry from its root, WEAKLY.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,864)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ly

Same root, WEAKLY · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old Norse, Proto-Germanic.

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

WEAKLIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its 6 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
50
First board
113
Latest board
42
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 45 days.

First ever to find it

dodechotomy

on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WEAKLIEST
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WEAKLIEST starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEEIKLSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start WEAKLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WEAKLIERWEAKLINGWEAKLINGSWEAKLINESSWEAKLINESSES

Could you have found WEAKLIEST?

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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.

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