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FOOF

/fuːf/4 letters

Definition of FOOF

noun

An audible puff of wind.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun1 syllable

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.

FOOF in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its one board, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
159
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

dgags

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

FOOF starts with F and ends with F. Sorted, its letters read FFOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F and O appear more than once, including a double letter. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.

Words that start FOOF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FOOFYFOOFIERFOOFARAHFOOFARAWFOOFARAWS

Could you have found FOOF?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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