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FLAMMING

8 letters

Definition of FLAMMING

verb

present participle and gerund of flam

FLAM

noun

A freak or whim; an idle fancy.

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Word DNA

FLAMMING inherits its ancestry from its root, FLAM.

How it is built

verb

Same root, FLAM · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old Norse.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FLAMMING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its 2 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
161
First board
166
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

luckyylisa

on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FLAMMING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FLAMMING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AFGILMMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found FLAMMING?

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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.

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