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GOATFISH
Definition of GOATFISH
noun
Any of the family Mullidae of brightly coloured fish with two barbels on the chin.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From goat + fish. The Mullidae sense is because of the fish's beard (as it were) seeming like a goat's beard (a goatee). The chimera sense is because the mythical beast is half goat and half fish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GOATFISH · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GOATFISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GOATFISH starts with G and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AFGHIOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GOATFISH?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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