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FILACEOUS
Definition of FILACEOUS
adjective
Composed of threads, stringy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Latin fīlum (“thread”) + -aceous.
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.
FILACEOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 78, 6 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FILACEOUS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEFILOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found FILACEOUS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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