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FELT
Definition of FELT
noun
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,501)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FELT · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FELT in OUTLIER
It has fitted 2 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FELT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EFLT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start FELT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FELT?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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