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FANTASM

7 letters

Definition of FANTASM

noun

Archaic spelling of phantasm.

PHANTASM

noun

Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.

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Other senses

FANTASM carries 4 further meanings.

  1. See phantasm, etc.

  2. noun

    A simplified spelling of phantasm.

  3. noun

    Same as phantasm.

  4. noun

    Alternative spelling of phantasm.

Word DNA

How it is built

noun

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FANTASM in a sentence

“The ETI has some connection to science, and is not quite the fantasm we see with angels, demons and for that matter God.”

Be vewwwwy vewwwwy quiet…., 2008

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

FANTASM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 114 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 37 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
37
Boards found on
24
First board
148
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

FANTASM
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FANTASM starts with F and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AAFMNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start FANTAS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FANTASTFANTASYFANTASIAFANTASIEFANTASMSFANTASTSFANTASIASFANTASIEDFANTASIESFANTASISEFANTASISTFANTASIZE

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from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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