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FECULENT
Definition of FECULENT
adjective
Dirty with faeces or other impurities
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
FECULENT carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Full of foul or impure matter; fecal.
Foul with extraneous or impure substances; muddy; turbid; offensive; consisting of or abounding with dregs, sediment, or excrementitious matter.
adjective
Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
adjective
Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Where it comes from
From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
FECULENT in a sentence
“The highest number of feculent cell phones was found in London: 28 percent.”
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Cell Phones: A Biological Part of You, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FECULENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 123 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FECULENT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEEFLNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of FECULENT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start FECULE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found FECULENT?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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