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YAWY
Definition of YAWY
adjective
Pertaining to, or afflicted with, the disease yaws.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From yaws + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
YAWY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 167, 3 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
YAWY starts with Y and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AWYY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. Y appears more than once.
Could you have found YAWY?
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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.
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