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RAFFS

5 letters

Definition of RAFFS

noun

plural of raff

RAFF

noun

A disorderly heap; a jumble; a large quantity

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Word DNA

RAFFS inherits its ancestry from its root, RAFF.

Line of descent

  1. German
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

German

Deepest traced root

8th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.1%

of traced words share this origin (827)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, RAFF · 1 relative in the game

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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.

RAFFS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 135
Its 2 boards, across 135 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
132
First board
134
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

holocrypt

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RAFFS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RAFFS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFFRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found RAFFS?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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