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FELTY

/ˈfɛlti/5 letters

Definition of FELTY

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or similar to felt.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From felt + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Revealed only in play
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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.

FELTY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 3 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
71
First board
107
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

nonironi

on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FELTY
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FELTY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFLTY - 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.

Could you have found FELTY?

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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.

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