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YAFFS

5 letters

Definition of YAFFS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of yaff

YAFF

verb

To bark, yelp.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, YAFF · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

YAFFS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its 2 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
132
First board
134
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.

Built from these letters

YAFFS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

YAFFS starts with Y and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFFSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found YAFFS?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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