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ROSEFISH

8 letters

Definition of ROSEFISH

noun

Alternative form of rose fish.

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Word DNA

ROSEFISH inherits its ancestry from its root, ROSE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Hebrew
  3. Arabic
  4. Aramaic
  5. Persian
  6. Ancient Greek
  7. Latin
  8. Old French
  9. Old English
  10. Middle English
  11. English

10 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,293)

How it is built

noun

Same root, ROSE · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Sanskrit.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · 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.

ROSEFISH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its one board, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
118
First board
41
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 41 days.

Built from these letters

ROSEFISH
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ROSEFISH starts with R and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read EFHIORSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start ROSEFI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ROSEFISH?

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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.

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