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FABULIST
Definition of FABULIST
noun
A person who writes, tells, or extensively studies fables.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
FABULIST carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A composer of fables.
noun
A teller of tales; a liar.
noun
An inventor or a writer of fables; a fabler; a maker of fictions.
noun
One who invents or writes fables.
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,085)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FABULIST · 1 relative in the game
FABULIST in a sentence
“But because its Aleksandar Hemon, the stories extend far beyond the immigrant experience; each one is punctuated with unexpected humor and spins out in fabulist, exhilarating directions, ultimately building to an insightful, often heartbreaking conclusion.”
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 52 boards so far. 242 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
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.
Also seen on Day 26
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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