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WORKFUL
Definition of WORKFUL
adjective
Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English workvol, from Old English weorcful (“active, industrious”), equivalent to work + -ful.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,881)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WORKFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WORKFUL starts with W and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read FKLORUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found WORKFUL?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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