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DOBS

4 letters

Definition of DOBS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of dob

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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.

DOBS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 3 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
94
First board
104
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

wellywriterSUPPORTER

on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOBS
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start DOBS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DOBSONDOBSONSDOBSONFLYDOBSONFLIES

Could you have found DOBS?

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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.

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