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FLAP
Definition of FLAP
noun
Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.
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.
FLAP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FLAP starts with F and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AFLP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FLAP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found FLAP?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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