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FLAGPOLE
Definition of FLAGPOLE
noun
A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From flag + pole. Cognate with West Frisian flaggepeal (“flagpole”), Dutch vlaggenpaal (“flagpole”), Low German Flaggenpohl (“flagpole”), German Flaggenpfahl (“flagpole”). Compare also West Frisian flaggemast (“flagpole”, literally “flag-mast”), Dutch vlaggenmast (“flagpole”, literally “flag-mast”), Low German Flaggstock (“flagpole”, literally “flag-stick”), Danish flagstang (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Swedish flaggstång (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Norwegian flaggstang (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Faroese flaggstong (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, FLAGPOLE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLAGPOLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FLAGPOLE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEFGLLOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Could you have found FLAGPOLE?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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