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WEAKLY

/ˈwiːkli/6 letters

Definition of WEAKLY

adjective

Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

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Where it comes from

From Old English wāclīċe (“weakly”), equivalent to weak + -ly (adjectival suffix); compare Old English wāclīċ (“weak; ignoble; mean”), and Old Norse veikligr (“weakly; sick”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waikalīkaz (“weakly; weak”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

WEAKLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 8 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
24
First board
103
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

sheryl

on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

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Built from these letters

WEAKLY
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

WEAKLY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEKLWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found WEAKLY?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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