FLIRT

Where it comes from

1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt (“to flick”), flurt (“to mock, jibe, scorn”), and flirt, flurt (“a giddy girl”). Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in Germanic, all of apparently onomatopoeic origin, compare Low German flirt (“a flick of the fingers, a light blow”), Low German flirtje (“a giddy girl”), Low German flirtje (“a flirt”), German Flittchen (“a flirt; tart; hussy”), Norwegian flira (“to giggle, titter”). Compare also Early Modern English jillflirt, gillian flirt, and flirt-gill (“a flirt”), and Scots flird (“a trifling", also, "to jibe, jeer at, talk idly, flirt, flaunt”), which is perhaps from Middle English flerd (“mockery, fraud, deception”), from Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception”); potentially related to Icelandic flærð (“trickiness, deceit”), Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”), Dutch flard (“tatter, shred”). See flird.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

FLIRT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

Words that start FLIRT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Also seen on Day 27