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NUMBFISHES

10 letters

Definition of NUMBFISHES

noun

plural of numbfish

NUMBFISH

noun

An electric ray of the family Narcinidae, capable of delivering numbing shocks.

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Word DNA

NUMBFISHES inherits its ancestry from its root, NUMBFISH.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, NUMBFISH · 1 relative 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.

NUMBFISHES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
37
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.

First ever to find it

yaydenPATRON

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NUMBFISHES
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NUMBFISHES starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEFHIMNSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start NUMBFI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found NUMBFISHES?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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