The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
FLATUS
Definition of FLATUS
noun
Gas generated in the digestive tract.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
FLATUS carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.
noun
A breath; a puff of wind; a pure expulsion of air from the lungs through the throat and mouth.
noun
Wind present in the stomach or intestines; eructation.
noun
Inflation; puffiness; the state of being distended with air, as a tumor.
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin flātus (“blowing, wind, fart”). First attested in the 1660s–1670s.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
FLATUS in a sentence
“•The primary components of gas (known as flatus, pronounced FLAY-tuss) are 5 odorless gases: nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and oxygen.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLATUS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 173 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 148 days.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FLATUS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFLSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of FLATUS. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
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 FLATUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found FLATUS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER