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FLAXEN
Definition of FLAXEN
adjective
Made of or resembling flax fibers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English flaxen, flexon, flexin, from Old English fleaxen (“of flax; flaxen”), equivalent to flax + -en (“made of”). Compare Dutch vlassen.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,977)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FLAXEN · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLAXEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 1054 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FLAXEN starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEFLNX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found FLAXEN?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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