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FELUCCA
Definition of FELUCCA
noun
A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (362)
branch · 2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FELUCCA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FELUCCA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FELUCCA starts with F and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACCEFLU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found FELUCCA?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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