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STONEFLY
Definition of STONEFLY
noun
Any of the freshwater aquatic insects in the order Plecoptera.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From stone + fly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STONEFLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 82, 10 August 2026.
Built from these letters
STONEFLY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFLNOSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start STONEF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STONEFLY?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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