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FLAKY
Definition of 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
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.
FLAKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FLAKY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFKLY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found FLAKY?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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