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DOOFUS
Definition of DOOFUS
noun
A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Pseudo-Latinism, possibly an alteration of earlier goofus (first attested in the 1920s) due to influence from Scots doof (“simpleton”). Scots doof is derived from Low German doof (“deaf”, with a secondary sense of “idiotic, stupid”). The Low German word is cognate with English deaf. By surface analysis, doof + Latin -us. Some have proposed that dupe possibly played some kind of role in the development of doofus as well.
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.
DOOFUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 81 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DOOFUS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DFOOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found DOOFUS?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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