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WINDY
Definition of WINDY
adjective
Accompanied by wind.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”). The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,847)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WINDY · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WINDY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 76 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WINDY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DINWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found WINDY?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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