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HAIRTAIL
Definition of HAIRTAIL
noun
Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hair + tail.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAIRTAIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 127, 24 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAIRTAIL starts with H and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAHIILRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.
Could you have found HAIRTAIL?
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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.
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