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FINESSED

8 letters

Definition of FINESSED

adjective

Executed or managed with skillful or subtle tact or adroitness.

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Word DNA

FINESSED inherits its ancestry from its root, FINESSE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (10,004)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-esse

Same root, FINESSE · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin 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.

FINESSED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 153
Its one board, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
63
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 63 days.

First ever to find it

flath2oflx

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FINESSED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FINESSED starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEFINSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start FINESS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FINESSEFINESSERFINESSESFINESSERSFINESSINGFINESSINGS

Could you have found FINESSED?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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