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WEAVERFISH
Definition of WEAVERFISH
noun
A fish in family Trachinidae, with venomous dorsal spines, the weever.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Alteration of weeverfish
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.
WEAVERFISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 168, 4 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 168, 4 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WEAVERFISH starts with W and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AEEFHIRSVW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start WEAVER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WEAVERFISH?
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 168 - and most players walked straight past it.
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