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FLATTERY
Definition of FLATTERY
noun
Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English flaterye, flaterie, from Old French flaterie, from the verb flater (“to flatter”). By surface analysis, flatter + -y (forming abstract nouns).
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.
FLATTERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 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
FLATTERY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEFLRTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start FLATTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FLATTERY?
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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