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DUCKTAILS

9 letters

Definition of DUCKTAILS

noun

plural of ducktail

DUCKTAIL

noun

A hairstyle in which the hair is swept back into an upturned point at the back.

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Word DNA

DUCKTAILS inherits its ancestry from its root, DUCKTAIL.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, DUCKTAIL · 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.

DUCKTAILS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 13 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
84
First board
149
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

nuckingfuts

on Day 84, 12 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DUCKTAILS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DUCKTAILS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDIKLSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start DUCKTA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DUCKTAILS?

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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.

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