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FLAGRANT
Definition of FLAGRANT
adjective
Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, present participle of flagrare (“blaze, burn”). More at black.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,951)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FLAGRANT · 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.
FLAGRANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 77 boards so far. 719 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FLAGRANT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AAFGLNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start FLAGRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found FLAGRANT?
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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