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DOUGHFACED

10 letters

Definition of DOUGHFACED

adjective

Alternative form of dough-faced.

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Word DNA

DOUGHFACED inherits its ancestry from its root, DOUGHFACE.

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Same root, DOUGHFACE · 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.

DOUGHFACED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its 3 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
134
First board
145
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

missy

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOUGHFACED
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DOUGHFACED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDDEFGHOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.

Words that start DOUGHF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DOUGHFACED?

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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