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FLID
Definition of FLID
noun
One with birth defects (such as phocomelia) caused by thalidomide.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Clipping of thalidomide, a pharmaceutical drug that was found to causes birth defects leading to a historical scandal, with the initial consonant modified by th-fronting.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, FLID · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FLID starts with F and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DFIL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found FLID?
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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.
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