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FILAMENTARY
Definition of FILAMENTARY
adjective
Of, pertaining to, containing or resembling a filament or filaments.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From filament + -ary.
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.
FILAMENTARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FILAMENTARY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AAEFILMNRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start FILAMEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FILAMENTARY?
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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