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FILMSTRIP
Definition of FILMSTRIP
noun
A length of film containing individual photographs or diagrams intended to be shown in sequence as instruction or as a visual aid.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From film + strip.
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.
FILMSTRIP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 71 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FILMSTRIP starts with F and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read FIILMPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start FILMST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found FILMSTRIP?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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