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FLAB

/flæb/4 letters

Definition of FLAB

noun

Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Back-formation from flabby.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FLAB in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 10 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
6
First board
113
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.

Built from these letters

FLAB
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start FLAB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FLABSFLABBYFLABBIERFLABBILYFLABELLAFLABBIESTFLABELLUMFLABBINESSFLABELLATEFLABELLUMSFLABBERGASTFLABBERGASTS

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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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.

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