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FLAME
Definition of FLAME
noun
The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.8%
of traced words share this origin (2,661)
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old English.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLAME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FLAME starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEFLM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start FLAME
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found FLAME?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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