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FIDDLERS

8 letters

Definition of FIDDLERS

noun

plural of fiddler

FIDDLER

noun

One who plays the fiddle.

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Word DNA

FIDDLERS inherits its ancestry from its root, FIDDLER.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

4.2%

of traced words share this origin (1,194)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Same root, FIDDLER · 1 relative in the game

Every Old English word → · 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.

FIDDLERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 140
Its 3 boards, across 140 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
131
First board
139
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

deblev

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FIDDLERS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FIDDLERS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DDEFILRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start FIDDLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FIDDLEFIDDLEDFIDDLERFIDDLESFIDDLEYFIDDLEYSFIDDLEBACKFIDDLEHEADFIDDLENECKFIDDLEWOODFIDDLEBACKSFIDDLEDEDEE

Could you have found FIDDLERS?

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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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