The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

SHOOFLIES

9 letters

Definition of SHOOFLIES

noun

plural of shoofly

SHOOFLY

noun

A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, SHOOFLY · 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.

SHOOFLIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 57 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 3 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
76
First board
146
Latest board
42
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

aes

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SHOOFLIES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SHOOFLIES starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFHILOOSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and O appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start SHOOFL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SHOOFLIES?

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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.

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