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WOMANISH

/ˈwʊmənɪʃ/8 letters

Definition of WOMANISH

adjective

Characteristic of a woman; effeminate, feminine.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English wommanyssh. Equivalent to woman + -ish. The verb is from the adjective.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,004)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective3 syllablescompound-ish

Same root, WOMANISH · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

WOMANISH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 45 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 31 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
31
Boards found on
26
First board
162
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

nttnypride

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

WOMANISH starts with W and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AHIMNOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start WOMANI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WOMANISH?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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