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DINGBATS

8 letters

Definition of DINGBATS

noun

plural of dingbat

DINGBAT

noun

A silly, crazy or stupid person.

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Word DNA

DINGBATS inherits its ancestry from its root, DINGBAT.

How it is built

noun

Same root, DINGBAT · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

DINGBATS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 70 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 35 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
35
Boards found on
23
First board
166
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

mossydeer

on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DINGBATS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DINGBATS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABDGINST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start DINGBA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DINGBATS?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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