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FLET

4 letters

Definition of FLET

noun

Floor; bottom; lower surface.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

9.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,359)

How it is built

noun

Its etymology also names Dutch.

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FLET in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 128
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Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

pjm2026

on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FLET
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FLET starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EFLT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 FLET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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