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DOODAD
Definition of DOODAD
noun
Used to refer to something whose name one cannot recall: an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown; attested since the 1880s. Compare earlier daud (“a piece of something”), later doohickey (“a thing (whose name one cannot recall)”), dialectal dad, dadge (“a large piece, chunk”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DOODAD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DOODAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First found by a player on Day 134, 1 October 2026.
Built from these letters
DOODAD starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADDDOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and O appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found DOODAD?
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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