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WILINESS

8 letters

Definition of WILINESS

noun

deceitful cleverness or shrewdness

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From wily + -ness.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

WILINESS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 126
Its one board, across 126 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
124
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

cryptical

on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WILINESS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WILINESS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIILNSSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and S appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start WILINE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WILINESSES

Could you have found WILINESS?

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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.

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