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FELTERING

9 letters

Definition of FELTERING

verb

present participle and gerund of felter

FELTER

verb

To clot, tangle, or mat together, such as like felt.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, FELTER · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

FELTERING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its 3 boards, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
117
First board
154
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

kawebb

on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FELTERING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FELTERING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EEFGILNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start FELTER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FELTERING?

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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.

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