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FOGDOG

6 letters

Definition of FOGDOG

noun

a ray of light seen amidst fog

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Where it comes from

By surface analysis, fog + dog

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

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.

FOGDOG in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its one board, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
29
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

gosia

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

Built from these letters

FOGDOG
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FOGDOG starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DFGGOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and G appear more than once.

Words that start FOGDOG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FOGDOG?

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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