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SPEARFISH
Definition of SPEARFISH
noun
Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
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Where it comes from
From spear + fish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPEARFISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPEARFISH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AEFHIPRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start SPEARF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPEARFISH?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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