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WIZARDLY
Definition of WIZARDLY
adjective
Like, or suiting a wizard.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WIZARDLY carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Having the qualities or attributes of a wizard.
adjective
Astonishingly remarkable in design, performance, or execution; fabulous.
“wizardly lighting and special effects.”
Resembling a wizard; characteristic of a wizard.
adjective
Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.
Where it comes from
From wizard + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WIZARD · 5 relatives in the game
WIZARDLY in a sentence
“The only similarity is the idea of wizardly chess, which (a.) can't be copyrighted or trademarked, and (b.) isn't original to Adrian Jacobs anyway.”
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WIZARDLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 242 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WIZARDLY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADILRWYZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of WIZARDLY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start WIZARD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found WIZARDLY?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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