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WOEFUL
Definition of WOEFUL
adjective
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English woful, waful, equivalent to woe + -ful. Compare Old English wālīċ (“woeful”), Old English tēonful (“woeful”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,231)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WOEFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 72 boards so far. 338 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WOEFUL starts with W and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EFLOUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WOEFUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found WOEFUL?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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