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FINGERBOARDS
Definition of FINGERBOARDS
noun
plural of fingerboard
noun
A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
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Word DNA
FINGERBOARDS inherits its ancestry from its root, FINGERBOARD.
How it is built
Same root, FINGERBOARD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FINGERBOARDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FINGERBOARDS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABDEFGINORRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start FINGERBO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FINGERBOARDS?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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