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DUFFINGS
Definition of DUFFINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for DUFFINGS itself. This is its base word, DUFF.
noun
Dough.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for DUFF.
Representing a northern England and Scots pronunciation of dough.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Scots
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
21st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (133)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DUFFINGS 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 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DUFFINGS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DFFGINSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found DUFFINGS?
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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