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BACKFILES
Definition of BACKFILES
noun
plural of backfile
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Word DNA
BACKFILES inherits its ancestry from its root, BACKFILE.
How it is built
Same root, BACKFILE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BACKFILES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BACKFILES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCEFIKLS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BACKFI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BACKFILES?
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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.
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