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STOOZER
Definition of STOOZER
noun
A person who makes a profit by stoozing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From stooze + -er.
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.
STOOZER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STOOZER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EOORSTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start STOOZE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STOOZER?
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 160 - and most players walked straight past it.
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