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FABULIST

/ˈfæbjəlɪst/8 letters

Definition of FABULIST

noun

A person who writes, tells, or extensively studies fables.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French fabuliste. By surface analysis, fable + -ist, or, by surface analysis, fabula + -ist. Compare fabular.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

FABULIST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 96
Its 27 boards, across 96 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
26
First board
96
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

FABULIST
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FABULIST starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABFILSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FABULI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FABULISEFABULIZEFABULISEDFABULISESFABULISTSFABULIZEDFABULIZESFABULISINGFABULISTICFABULIZING

Could you have found FABULIST?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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