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DEFUZES

7 letters

Definition of DEFUZES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of defuze

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DEFUZES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its one board, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
107
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

baroncorvo

on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DEFUZES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DEFUZES starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEEFSUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start DEFUZE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DEFUZEDEFUZED

Could you have found DEFUZES?

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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.

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