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FILCHERS

8 letters

Definition of FILCHERS

noun

plural of filcher

FILCHER

noun

One who filches; a thief.

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Another sense

FILCHERS carries a second meaning.

  1. noun

    Plural form of filcher.

Word DNA

FILCHERS inherits its ancestry from its root, FILCHER.

How it is built

nouncompound-er

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FILCHERS in a sentence

“But it's got nothing to do with rodents, Muslims, funnel clouds, infant-filchers, or any other phantom menace lurking throughout our great city.”

Patrick Sauer: Scary Scary Scary New York City, 2010

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FILCHERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 135 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 143
Its 47 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
47
Boards found on
29
First board
142
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

tatakata

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FILCHERS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FILCHERS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEFHILRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FILCHE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FILCHERS?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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