The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

FRUITFLY

8 letters

Definition of FRUITFLY

noun

Alternative spelling of fruit fly.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From fruit + fly.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, FRUIT · 17 relatives 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.

FRUITFLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
37
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.

First ever to find it

kate_tbd

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FRUITFLY
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FRUITFLY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FFILRTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once.

Words that start FRUITF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FRUITFLY?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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