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HEADFIRST
Definition of HEADFIRST
adverb
With the head in front; headlong.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From head + first.
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.
HEADFIRST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEADFIRST starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ADEFHIRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HEADFI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEADFIRST?
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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.
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