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WHISKERY
Definition of WHISKERY
adjective
Having whiskers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WHISKERY carries 4 further meanings.
Having or wearing whiskers.
adjective
Having whiskers; bewhiskered.
adjective
old
adjective
having hair on the cheeks and chin
Where it comes from
From whisker + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WHISK · 9 relatives in the game
WHISKERY in a sentence
“Pop smells whiskery, like Listerine and aftershave and car engines, like the orange and blue Gulf Gas Station ring that keeps the key to the bunk house where more relatives live.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WHISKERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 220 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WHISKERY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EHIKRSWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WHISKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found WHISKERY?
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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