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WEARINESS
Definition of WEARINESS
noun
Exhaustion, fatigue or tiredness.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English werynes, werinesse, from Old English wēriġnes (“weariness”), equivalent to weary + -ness.
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.
WEARINESS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
WEARINESS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEINRSSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start WEARIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WEARINESS?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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