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FILEMOT

/ˈfɪləmɒt/7 letters

Definition of FILEMOT

adjective

Synonym of feuillemorte.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

An anglicized form of feuillemorte / French feuille-morte.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,062)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

adjective3 syllables

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

FILEMOT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 144
Its 7 boards, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
35
First board
117
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.

First ever to find it

julia108

on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

FILEMOT
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start FILEMO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FILEMOT?

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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