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FLAKIES
Definition of FLAKIES
Wiktionary has no entry for FLAKIES itself. This is its base word, FLAKY.
adjective
Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for FLAKY.
From flake + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLAKIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 60, 19 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 60, 19 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FLAKIES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEFIKLS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 60
Could you have found FLAKIES?
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 60 - and most players walked straight past it.
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