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FLINT
Definition of FLINT
noun
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLINT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 57 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FLINT starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read FILNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FLINT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FLINT?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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