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BUTTERFINGERS
Definition of BUTTERFINGERS
noun
Someone who tends to drop things; someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.
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.
BUTTERFINGERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUTTERFINGERS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEEFGINRRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T, E and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BUTTERFIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUTTERFINGERS?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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