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UPFLY

5 letters

Definition of UPFLY

verb

To fly upward.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From up- + fly.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

verbcompoundup-

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

UPFLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
156
First board
11
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

lisab

on Day 156, 23 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UPFLY
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

UPFLY starts with U and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FLPUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start UPFLY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UPFLYING

Could you have found UPFLY?

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 156 - and most players walked straight past it.

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