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FILCHES
Definition of FILCHES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of filch
verb
To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
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Another sense
FILCHES carries a second meaning.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of filch.
Word DNA
FILCHES inherits its ancestry from its root, FILCH.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,211)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FILCH · 4 relatives in the game
FILCHES in a sentence
“Twelve-year-old orphan Hugo lives in the walls of a Paris train station at the turn of the 20th century, where he tends to the clocks and filches what he needs to survive.”
Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield Join Scorsese’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret | /Film, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FILCHES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 92 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FILCHES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEFHILS - 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.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found FILCHES?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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