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DANDRUFF
Definition of DANDRUFF
noun
scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, but compare dander. The second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian Middle English hurf (“scab”), from Old Norse hrufa. Compare Dutch roof, Luxembourgish Roff. Related with Proto-Germanic *hreubaz, *hreufaz (“rough, scabby”), source of Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). More at reef (etymology 3).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old Norse
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (199)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DANDRUFF · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Old English, Proto-Germanic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DANDRUFF in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DANDRUFF starts with D and ends with F. Sorted, its letters read ADDFFNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and F appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found DANDRUFF?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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