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WINSOME
Definition of WINSOME
adjective
Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English wynsom, winsom, winsome, winsum, wunsum (“beautiful; agreeable, gracious, pleasant; generous; of situations: favourable, propitious”), from Old English wynsum (“joyful, merry, pleasant; winsome”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjusam (“joyful”). By surface analysis, winne (“delight, joy, pleasure”) + -some.
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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.
WINSOME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 234 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WINSOME starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIMNOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WINSOM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found WINSOME?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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