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FLATTERIES
Definition of FLATTERIES
noun
plural of flattery
noun
Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
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Word DNA
FLATTERIES inherits its ancestry from its root, FLATTERY.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,408)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FLATTERY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLATTERIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FLATTERIES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEFILRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start FLATTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FLATTERIES?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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