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WHYDAH
Definition of WHYDAH
noun
Any of various black and white African birds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.
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.
WHYDAH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WHYDAH starts with W and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ADHHWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H appears more than once.
Words that start WHYDAH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WHYDAH?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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