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OARFISH

7 letters

Definition of OARFISH

noun

A large, greatly elongated, type of fish of the family Regalecidae.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From oar + fish.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, OARFISH · 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.

OARFISH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 88 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 54 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
54
Boards found on
27
First board
160
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.

Built from these letters

OARFISH
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

OARFISH starts with O and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AFHIORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start OARFIS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found OARFISH?

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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.

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