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WOLFISH
Definition of WOLFISH
adjective
Of, like, or pertaining to a wolf.
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Other senses
WOLFISH carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Of or relating to wolves.
adjective
Suggestive of or resembling a wolf.
adjective
Fierce or rapacious.
noun
Like a wolf; having the qualities or traits of a wolf; savage; ravening: as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
Where it comes from
From wolf + -ish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WOLF · 16 relatives in the game
WOLFISH in a sentence
“They walked down the block-long sidewalk, past the warehouse doors and the long teams of waiting huskies curled up in wolfish comfort in the snow.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WOLFISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 69 boards so far. 251 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WOLFISH starts with W and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read FHILOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of WOLFISH. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
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 WOLFIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WOLFISH?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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