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TRIFFID
Definition of TRIFFID
noun
A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Coined by John Wyndham for his 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, by alteration of the botanical term trifid (“having three lobes”).
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.
TRIFFID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRIFFID starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DFFIIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and F appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start TRIFFI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRIFFID?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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