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STARFISH
Definition of STARFISH
noun
Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
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Where it comes from
From star + 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.
STARFISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STARFISH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AFHIRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start STARFI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STARFISH?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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