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FIGURE
Definition of FIGURE
noun
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (dégdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FIGURE in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 104 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FIGURE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFGIRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FIGURE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found FIGURE?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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