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DROOB

5 letters

Definition of DROOB

noun

An ineffectual or unattractive person; a dag.

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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.

DROOB in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 2 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
82
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 82, 10 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First ever to find it

dwellin

on Day 103 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DROOB
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DROOB starts with D and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BDOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start DROOB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DROOB?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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