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DOBSONFLY
Definition of DOBSONFLY
noun
Any insect of the subfamily Corydalinae, whose males have long mandibles, found in the Americas and related most closely to the fishfly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown; possibly Dobson + fly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DOBSONFLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOBSONFLY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BDFLNOOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start DOBSON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found DOBSONFLY?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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