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FLAVOR
Definition of FLAVOR
noun
The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,625)
How it is built
Same root, FLAVOR · 4 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLAVOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 71 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FLAVOR starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AFLORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FLAVOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found FLAVOR?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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